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Book extract

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Hannah

Counting down… it’s four weeks to the publication of The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle. The clip above is from my publisher’s YouTube channel – me reading an extract from the book to whet your whistles. Isn’t it funny seeing … Continue reading →

Posted in Making changes | Tagged adventure, Avery Buckle, bicycles, cats, children's books, Discover Kelpies, edinburgh, Floris Books, Hannah Foley, libraries, magic, middle grade, middle grade fiction, owls, reading, scotland, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches | Comments Off

Chips!

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Hannah

Our week of relaxing day trips was slightly scuppered by a phone call from the plumber to say he could start work on our bathroom. He’d first phoned us back in March to say he’d penciled us in for May, … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Making changes | Tagged allotment, bathroom, birthday, birthday tea, box room, Britain, children, chips, COVID-19, devon, DIY, en-suite, evening, gardening, home improvements, lockdown, menu, new bathroom, old houses, parenting, phonics, plastering, plumber, reading, restaurants, social distancing, southwest, summer, summer evenings, UK | Comments Off

Rain

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Hannah

This is a photo from half term. I sat on the beach in the sunshine while the children pottered about in the shallows. No one needed a wee or a snack, no one was having a meltdown, no one was … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Growing things | Tagged allotment, beach, book, children, half term, lightning, mum, parenting, rain, reading, strawberries, thunder, watering, whatsapp | Comments Off

Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2019

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Hannah

We are very lucky to live within striking distance of the Bath Children’s Literature Festival here, which is the biggest of its kind in Europe. Little Owl and I headed up there on the train on Saturday. We hit the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bath, children, children's books, children's literature, Hilary McKay, illustrator events, kid lit, Literature festival, Liz Pichon, Michelle Magorian, reading, rugby, the skylarks war, Tom Gates, writing process | Leave a comment

Picture Books 2018

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Hannah

I woke up one morning over the weekend and peered out bleary-eyed from under my duvet. The room was dark and nothing stirred, but something had definitely woken me up. As my eyes adjusted to the dimness they came to rest … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Illustration | Tagged 2018, A Letter for Amy, Aurelie Guillerey, Charlotte Guillain, children, Daddy-Long-Legs, Emily Gravett, Ezra Jack Kets, Gigantosaurus, Goggles! Whistle for Willie, Hannah Foley, How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim, Janet Burroway, John Vernon Lord, Jonny Duddle, kids, Nadine Brun-Cosme, non-fiction, parenting, Peter, picture books, reading, reading aloud, strange creatures, The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Snowy Day, The Street Beneath My Feet, Tidy, V&A Illustration Prize, vivian french, Yuval Zommer | 1 Comment

Sky stories

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Hannah

The new attic room has come into its own with this prolonged spell of hot weather. In the evening Finch and I pick our way over Big Dreamer’s tools (he is building a wardrobe) to the futon for bedtime stories. … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife | Tagged attic, bedtime stories, character development, children, childrens' book art, crying, evening, girl, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, jumping, laughing, picture book art, reading, running, sky, stories, summer, swifts | 1 Comment

July

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Hannah

In my seasonal reading, Stephen Moss, in Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, describes July as a month of stasis, “a chance to reflect on the rollercoaster ride of spring.” Now chicks have been raised, parent birds are moulting ready for the colder … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife | Tagged an english year, bees, beetles, birds, butterflies, Derbyshire, dragon, Early reader, Hannah Foley, hummingbird hawkmoth, illustration, july, moths, moult, purple loosestrife, reading, seasonal, snails, Stephen Moss, steve roud, Tissington, well-dressing, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, willow herb | Comments Off

May

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Hannah

I’ve been delving into my seasonal reading again this month. Steve Roud’s chapter on May in his book The English Year, is a riot of flower strewn celebrations. Roud says that traditionally May would have rivalled Christmas in the scale … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Illustration | Tagged buttercups, cheese-rolling, cow parsley, cuckoos, ducking day, elms, hedgerows, hobby horses, illustration, jack-by-the-hedge, may, May Day, maypoles, nightingales, ragged robin, reading, seasonal, seasonality, seasons, Stephen Moss, steve roud, stitchwort, the english year, thresholds, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds | Comments Off

Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Hannah

Getting up in the night to feed Finch has had a number of unexpected benefits. I heard the dawn chorus one morning, bright and unearthly coming through the gently diminishing gloom and seeping between the layers of my sleep-thickened brain. … Continue reading →

Posted in Illustration | Tagged AOI, Association of Illustrators, birlinn, body-snatchers, books, breastfeeding, burkers, caravans, children, dawn chorus, dialectograms, Duncan Williamson, fairytales, Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children, glasgow, illustration, kindle, Mitch Miller, motorhomes, reading, review, scotland, sleep, storytelling, tents, Travellers, Travelling community, Travelling people | 1 Comment

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