Deserts and Desserts

I've written another short piece about my adventures with Sarah McIntyre in Dubai, which you can find  on the Girls Heart Books blog.  And Sarah has just blogged about the Bologna Book fair and our new book, CAKES IN SPACE! Read all about it here.

Rain, Rain, Rain, and an OUP Classics Competition

Inspired by all the RAIN, I've written a short guest post about some favourite flood stories on Girls Heart Books (which you should be reading if you Heart Books, even if, like me, you're not a Girl).

Me in a puddle, with a poodle.

Oh, and Oxford University Press (who publish Oliver and the Seawigs) are running a competition for young book reviewers at the moment.

All you need to do (if you're aged 9-13) is write a short, enthusiastic review of one of the books below, which are the first ten titles in the re-launched Oxford Children's Classics. The winners will get:

-          Their review printed in the front of the book

-          A load of copies of the book to give away to their friends

-          A complete set of the new Oxford Children’s Classics for themselves

-          £100 worth of OUP books for their school

Reviews should be 250 - 350 words long, and need to be e-mailed to oxfordchildrensclassics@oup.com by 21st March.

Further details here.