Phoenix

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As for drafts - every writer is different. Some need more than others. But all of us do more than one. All you can do is keep working on it until it's the very best you can possibly make it; until it's exactly what you would most want to read yourself. And I think it will be worth it, because you have some brilliant ideas. Please write a second book,it doesnt have to have one if my ideas in it but I really want to read a second one. I have been recommending this book to all my friends and they all say they loved it And have you read my Varjak Paw books yet? They might look quite different to Phoenix, being about cats rather than aliens, but deep down, I think they have a lot in common with Phoenix. If you liked Bixa, I think you'll like Holly too!

I write the stories that I most want to read myself! All writers are really just readers who take one more step, and write the stories they want to read. You can do this too - all writers are readers, and all readers can be writers. I wrote a bit about this in this blog post. Joman, my favourite book is the one I'm writing right now! It's called TYGER - you can read a bit about it here: Varjak Paw won the 2003 Smarties Prize for Children's Literature. Translated into fourteen languages, Varjak became a play, a musical, and even an opera. The sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, won the Blue Peter Book Award in 2007. Both books are beloved in classrooms across the UK.As they entered the Free Cats’ territory Miss Moggs crying her eyes out. She said, “Sor has kidnapped all the Free Cats! I could not bear to come.

So, when I was little, my parents read to me a huge amount - which lead to me wanting to read myself. I also had a massive fascination with cats (I still kinda do) which meant I read pretty much anything with a cat on the cover.

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You might remember coming to our school before (in January 2016 when we were in Year 1) and we’d love it if you could come again. I am definitely planning to write a third book about Varjak one day - and you'll be glad to hear that I think it will be about Varjak as an older cat! I wrote a bit about my idea for it here:

However, when I get the chance, I love to read to my little sister. The first books I read to her was your incredible Varjak Paw duology. I should point out that she's not much of a fiction reader herself, and yet she loved both books and was sad (as I was) to see them come to an end. It was incredible to read the stories again, and understand them on a deeper level now that I'm older. I got actual chills reading through the endings of books 1 and 2 for what might possibly be the hundredth time. I wasn't really sure about this idea, but what about if the human leader goes down in a rogue assault by Axxa terrorists and humans retaliate by trying to kill the Axxa again. Our favourite characters were Varjak (4 votes), Sally Bones (3 votes) but the clear winner was Cludge (23 votes) (Cassius). We played a game found in Mesopotamia called the Royal Game of Ur – the oldest board game in the world (Pia) – and wrote instructions on how to play it (Caitlin). I think my new book Phoenix is my best one so far. It's a great big space epic, and I really enjoyed putting a lot of things I love into it, especially the stars. Here's a blog I did with some of the inspirations behind that book...

The Outlaw Varjak Paw

IBBY Honours List 2016 event at Waterstones". IBBY. September 25, 2017 . Retrieved 22 January 2021. Sibree, Bron (24 October 2020). "Review | The Gifts of Reading: an inspiring celebration of the written word and human kindness". Post Magazine . Retrieved 22 January 2021. We even used it in Maths when we counted the most commonly occurring letters, length of words and sentences to create bar charts and different kinds of data (Cameron) It's really interesting to hear that you're illustrating your writing. Blake did that too - he was one of the first to do it. I don't know if there's a book that explains how to do it - I know almost nothing about illustration, only writing! But I think it would be a great thing to do, as illustration always adds something to a story. So maybe it's worth asking an art teacher or artist about it?