You sit in a room all day and write because you hope your stories are going to be read, enjoyed, and speak to people These photos sent to me on twitter by Imogen Russell @ImogenRW will spur me on. I am now writing my next book for Macmillan Children's Books and I can't tell you how heartening it is to keep these pictures of a well thumbed copy of 'Red Leaves' in mind. and heart as I write....
Yesterday I began a project with illustrator Jane Ray at a refugee project where those who are experiencing Aisha's journey in 'Red Leaves' also held this book. What makes writing such a transformative process is to move from the need to tell a story...the imagination, research and hours at a desk crafting words and worlds... to then have that potent distillation published and placed into the hands of young readers... in this reality...is a kind of magic.
Red Leaves is endorsed by Amnesty International UK as a book with a Human Rights heart.
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