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Midsummer
My children are growing, I’ve started to get silver hairs in my fringe, and yesterday was the mid-point in the year. In my day job, I am organising some drug treatment regimes for patients for 6 months time. That’s Christmas! … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author event, book festival, Childrens Author, childrens books, ChipLitFest, Chipping Norton Book Festival, climate, devon, Devon lane, family, Hannah Foley, land, Love Devon magazine, nature, school visits, spring, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, tulips, well-being, wellbeing
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Fossil hunting
Last year, as part of my research for The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, I went fossil hunting along the Jurassic Coast. I took my sister’s little puppy, Brody, to help. Even though he’s part-hound, he turned out not … Continue reading
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Tagged ammonites, fossil-hunting, Hannah Foley, Jurassic coast, puppy, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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World Book Day 2023
This World Book Day I was able to visit several schools on and around the day, delivering writing workshops and my author talk. It was an absolute joy to chat to children about what they’re reading and writing. We talked … Continue reading
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Tagged author visit, Hannah Foley, school visits, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, workshop, World Book Day, World Book Day 2023, writing workshop, Zephyr Books
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Another Illustrator Insight: Me!
Part of my contract for The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair was for me to produce the internal illustrations for the book. As many of you know, it’s a while since I was actively illustrating for commercial purposes so … Continue reading
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Tagged black and white, children's books, found objects, Hannah Foley, illustrator, inks, internal illustrations, natural history, still life, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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Illustrator Insight: Lucy Rose
One of the things that is soooo exciting (among many!) about having your book published, is having a wonderful illustrator use their incredible skills for the front cover of your book. Although I had seen the final version of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Design, children's books, Hannah Foley, illustrator, Lucy Rose, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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Launch!
It has been the most incredible couple of weeks launching The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair. I have visited bookshops, libraries and schools, and met so many wonderful people. There have been super kind reviews of the book online … Continue reading
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Tagged book launch, Hannah Foley, Jurassic coast, mental health, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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Bleak midwinter
So many people complain about January as being long and bleak but it is the darkening of November and the deep gloom of the days around the Winter Solstice which make me cower. By the time New Year is done, … Continue reading
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Tagged Author events, children's books, fossils, hyacinths, January, Jurassic coast, mental health, midwinter, river, snow, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
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Picture Books 2022
The Tree is down and the decorations put away. The kids have been freshly bathed and checked for head lice (what a job!), ready for the new term. I brought the hyacinth bulbs we planted in the autumn, out of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dress With Pockets, Alice Melvin, Briony May Smith, comet, Deborah Smith, Elli Woollard, hyacinths, I am the Subway, Jenny Lovelie, Joe Todd-Stanton, Jon Agee, Karine Polwart, Kate Leiper, Kim Hyo-eun, Lily Murray, Mermaid Moon, new year, Nora Brech, Paula White, picture books, The Baker by the Sea, The Last Rainbow Bird, The Queen of the BIrds, The Wall in the Middle of the Book, winter
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Winter meadows
I stopped on the bridge by the river one evening on my cycle home. It had stopped raining and the clouds had cleared. Above my head was a whole star-spangled universe. Water ran in rivulets all over the water meadows, … Continue reading
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Tagged childrens books, flood, Hannah Foley, marshes, One to watch, reviews, river, stars, The Bookseller, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
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Bright windows
The evening sky turns to dark teal and then midnight blue. A shining slice of new moon is framed by chimney pot silhouettes. Among the houses life tableaus blink on in bright windows before the curtains close – a real … Continue reading
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Tagged children's books, compost heap, EMForster, evening sky, fields, fig tree, fungi, Hannah Foley, Howards End, Jacqui Sydney, leaves, mental health, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, North Devon, november, ocean, reviews, sea, spring mulch, Stevenage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, woodland
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