Incredible news - my new book Tyger has just won the Children's Fiction Book Of The Year at the British Book Awards! I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone at Foyles for an evening I will never forget, and for making Tyger their children's book of the year! If you're looking for a longer interview, here's a really thoughtful conversation I had with the critic Imogen Russell Williams for Books For Keeps– the UK's leading children's books magazine.

Talk aboutthe story Discuss anything children wonder about; such as some of the vocabulary which may be unfamiliar, for example ‘outlaw’, ‘avalanche’ and ‘sewer’. a book to cherish and read again", while Alison Leach picked TYGER as a book of the month for BooksForTopics, and said: "SF Said's fanbase will be thrilled to read this new adventure - laced with danger, edged with fantasy and packed to the core with thinking and discussion points that link to very real issues in society. To continue their learning, they could go on to read the sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, explore Dave McKean’s atmospheric illustrations in The Wolves in the Walls or Coraline, and discover other mentor texts such as Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley. My family is quite poor as it is, and I relied on my previous schools to be able to read Varjak Paw and The Outlaw Varjak Paw. In the meantime, yes, there will be a third Varjak Paw book, but it won't be for a while yet - I wrote about it in this blog post.Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

Razor also says that it's the law that if you're not in Sally Bones's Gang, you can't hunt mice, but you have to eat rubbish.though my agent says I can't give you permission to sell those stories, or make money from them in any way. Thank you so much for your message, and your kind words about my work - and please thank your son for me, and tell him to keep the Way alive! On a large piece of paper, A3 or bigger (eg back of a piece of wallpaper or similar) children could draw a chart of the characters in the story with annotations. Being a film lover, there is not a second film that has ever filled me with love I had for the first. The saddest part of the book was when Sally Bones ripped off a cat’s ear and later on in the book she got rammed by a train.