Dee 
Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre’s new series – Adventure Mice – gets off to an exciting (and extremely CUTE) start with Otter Chaos! Little Pedro lives with his family in the comfortable safety of Hilltop House, with a deaf old lady and a cat far too lazy to chase mice, but he longs for adventure and sets off to find the legendary Mouse Islands. Swept into the sea and clinging desperately to his tiny suitcase, he’s rescued by the … Read more
One Thousand Shades of Green follows The One Show’s wildlife expert Mike Dilger on an epic mission to see one thousand different species of plants in Britain in 2021. Ahead of our event next week, here’s a little interview with Mike about flora, family and more by our friends at Booktime. The book is about your search for a thousand plants around Britain. Do you think that plants are often forgotten when people think about the natural world? Absolutely. I started off … Read more
It was an honour and a privilege for Dee to be invited to represent The Bookery and join the BolognaRagazzi Award Jury last month, to spend time with passionate book advocates from across the world and make some tricky decisions about the very best 2023 submissions. A total of 2,349 titles were submitted by 644 publishers from 59 countries and regions around the world with books from Bangladesh, Cyprus, Macedonia, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and Venezuela arriving on the tables for … Read more
Some of you have already seen the news but if you haven’t, the most extraordinary thing happened on Monday evening… The British Book Awards, aka The Nibbies, are an annual celebration of books and everyone who brings them to life. Often described as the BAFTAs of the book world, they affirm, connect and energise all who have a hand in creating books and all who read them, by showcasing the authors and illustrators who have stirred our hearts and imaginations, … Read more
Award-winning illustrator Sarah McIntyre to become Patron of South West Bookshop of the Year The Bookery in Crediton. Award-winning illustrator Sarah McIntyre has been announced as Patron of community-owned bookshop The Bookery, in Crediton – The British Book Awards South West Bookshop of the Year. Sarah has recently re-located to Devon following a decade of visiting her writing partner and local author Philip Reeve on Dartmoor – which has provided the inspiration for the ‘Outermost West’ location in their Roly-Poly … Read more
As part of Feminist Book Fortnight we are delighted to be hosting Dreadnought South West’s Rebellious Sounds Archive. Call into the bookshop to experience this inspiring installation during FBF22, 14th-28th May. The Rebellious Sounds Archive project presented an opportunity to commemorate, consider, share the heritage of women since the Representation of the People Act of 1918, and to recognise how women’s suffrage has acted as inspiration for contemporary women’s activism. Forty-eight oral histories were collected, covering themes including the setting up of … Read more
To mark National Poetry Day 2021 we caught up with Jane Feaver, Editorial Manager of Poetry at Faber… Can you tell us what you’ve been up to recently? I’ve just started back in a job I last did twenty years ago in the poetry department of Faber and Faber. It’s an exciting time to be back, reconnecting with familiar faces and making connections with new. The current publishing schedule represents this mix of old and new, with a second collection … Read more
Instantly recognisable in her pointy specs, Sarah McIntyre writes and illustrates the Grumpycorn picture books, as well as Dinosaur Firefighters and The New Neighbours. Her co-author collaborations with Philip Reeve include Oliver and the Seawigs and Pugs of the Frozen North, and they’ve had a lot of fun creating their new four-book series about Kevin the Roly-Poly Flying Pony. Sarah loves drawing and creating characters that make her laugh out loud. Visit her website for activities based on each … Read more
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