MERMAIDS IN FOLKLORE The rugged coast of Cornwall is the perfect setting for the mysterious and magical - the sudden sea mists, the constant...

March is a busy month for children's authors. Here are a few snippets of what some of us have been up to: Miriam Halahmy   5 visits, wit...

Unlike thousands of children in the then Soviet Union, I didn't read Geoffrey Trease's books as a child. Trease's first novel fo...

For the last five or so years, my writing life has been mostly long stretches of non-fiction for 8-12 year-olds, with only the occasional sn...

I like being alone, but there’s always some kind of company at my house. There’s always somebody around who can match my mood, or come up w...

  It feels very odd to be posting on the 29 th  day of the month. Ever since I first blogged for ABBA – March 2014 if anyone’s interested, i...

 I'm sure by now that everyone's heard the news that Meta has stolen millions of books and research papers and used them to train th...