From Beach Cleans to Ocean Dreams:
Authors4Oceans is thrilled to announce that M. G Leonard, Dougie Poynter, Lauren St John and Christopher Vick will be appearing at Grand Designs Live, in London on 5th of May at 2pm, talking about the collective and our initiatives to save our seas.
Book cover for Spider Wig by M. G. Leonard
I have a little news that I am excited about. I’ve been working with the German education publisher Klett, to produce three books of varying lengths and vocabulary for German students reading English.
All three books will be published in Germany this year. The first (of 10,000 words and for confident readers of English as a foreign language) is called Spider Wig and published this week. The second book is called The Old Steam Train and will be published in July. The third book is called The Umbrella Room and will come in early Autumn.
The stories are contemporary, funny and I’m proud of them. I will also be recording the audiobooks that accompany these texts.
Few things are more lovely than when your book wins an award. It’s gratifying because writing books is hard work. Writing this book was the hardest work of all because I wasn’t allowed to make anything up.
The most special awards are the ones voted for by children, because they are who my books are for. If they vote for your book to win an award then you must be doing something right, right?
I wrote The Beetle Collector’s Handbook because I am passionate about children discovering how wild and wonderful beetles are, and so this award means a HUGE amount to me. It’s made my year.
A big thank-you to everyone in Doncaster at the book award and especially those fantastic children that voted for my beetle filled book.
