The Craig Cup

The novelist and critic Amanda Craig has awarded Wildlord the Craig Cup for Most Underrated Children's Book. Her review is here on Writers Review.

Wildlord review round up

 I've been so delighted by the response to Wildlord. It's wonderful to be reviewed - when there are so many brilliant new children's books out there, it's difficult to find space (as I know myself, from having written a thrice-yearly round up for Literary Review for over a decade.) Here's a round up of the latest.

Amanda Craig, herself a brilliant novelist, has reviewed Wildlord in the New Statesman:

Children's Books Ireland had a very kind mention of the book in their Christmas Reading Guide:

Love Reading4 Kids made Wildlord their book of the month (thank you!) and had this to say:

Culturefly had Wildlord in their Best Books for Christmas:

And finally, The Irish Times:

 

 

 

Christmas Children's Books Round-up for Literary Review

As sure as eggs are eggs, here comes my 94th Children's Book Round up for that estimable organ, Literary Review. You can read it here. Featured books are:

Dark Peak by Marcus Sedgwick

The Chime Seekers by Ross Montgomery

The Red Gloves and Other Stories by Catherine Fisher

Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep by Philip Reeve

Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange

The Shadows of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

Fireborn by Aisling Fowler.