Posts written by Gemma Creegan.
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Ashleigh Barton! We’re delighted to welcome back Ashleigh Barton, best-selling and notable author of popular picture books and middle grade novels, including the ‘What Do You Call Your…’ books and the Solomon Macaroni series (see our interview here). Today she is here to share her newest, achingly beautiful middle grade novel, […]
Welcome to The Quick Six Interview with Jacinta Liu! ”I have two grandmothers.One with brown eyes, and one with blue eyes.One makes dumplings, and one bakes bread.They are my grandmothers. One lives in the East, and one lives in the West.” In our current world climate of uncertainty and division, picture books like ‘Grandmother from […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Rae White! It’s a pleasure to return to the blog with a beautiful interview, celebrating diversity and individuality in the most colourful of ways possible! Welcome author Rae White to share their latest touching and gentle picture book that gives space to gender choices, whether yellow or blue, lizards or rainbows, […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Amy Freund! We’re delighted to welcome debut picture book author, Amy Freund, to the blog, to share her gorgeous, exuberant and exotic new title, Amigo the Capybara! Move over sloths, capybaras are the latest and hippest mammals around, and here is Amigo, the friendliest and most energetic rodent you could ever […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Carla Fitzgerald! It’s a privilege to speak with talented author of Keeping Up with the Dachshunds and How to be Prime Minister and Survive Grade Five – Carla Fitzgerald is here to smash this interview with How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five. This middle grade chapter book […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Sarah Zweck! It’s such a beautiful pleasure to welcome talented author-illustrator, Sarah Zweck to the blog to share her newest, stunning picture book, Ray. Her sweet narrative and mixed-media illustrations meld together just perfectly, creating something gentle, hopeful, and simply beautiful to read, look at and ponder – just as you […]
Welcome to The Quick Six Interview with Mo Davey! It was a pleasure to have a chat with debut author and illustrator Ramona Davey about her much-awaited debut, I Am Tree Rex. Ramona is a passionate advocate of kid lit and is always there to cheer on her fellow kid lit creators, as well as being very […]
Welcome to The Quick Six Interview with Rae Tan! Rae Tan‘s debut picture book as an Author and Illustrator was a real standout for me so far this year. I love the character of Plum and Rae’s masterful use of watercolour and pastels to create Plum’s pom pom skirt and furry outline, as well as […]
Welcome to The Quick Six Interview with Sarah Speedie! We last welcomed Sarah Speedie to the blog to talk about her gorgeous picture book, Boss Cat (interview here). Today she’s here with another vivacious title; Wild About Book Week. With the impending arrival of our favourite bookish time of the year, this book couldn’t come […]
I was fortunate to receive two touching picture books recently, which both, in different yet similar ways, capture visual and emotive beauty in their centring around themes of friendship and overcoming challenges, whether this is as a young girl in a village or as a lonely snail in a scary garden. Both equally stunning and […]
