I get grumpy when I’m right in the middle of a terrific story (whether it be reading a book or watching a film), or making a drawing that I like, and I have to go do something else. This book is a great book when it comes to teaching respect to your students with their parents, peers, and teachers. On Sunday 1 January, he reads The Moon Keeper written and illustrated by Zosienka about friendship, the phases of the moon and how it’s ok that in life, things come and go. Cunningham, the author behind Totally Deceased – the brand-new, hilarious, high-stakes YA murder mystery! She reads The Black Book of Colours written by Menena Cottin and illustrated by Rosana Faria about experiencing a rainbow of colours through our senses of touch, taste, smell or hearing.

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His beloved friends, Narwhal, Mermaid, and Jellyfish, to try to help inspire him but still nothing seems to work. While I was there, I got to know children’s book artist Valisa Higman and see the amazing floating cottage her dad built, and where she works. Hear from the creators of our superbly silly titles in the Picture Books Shortlist for the Laugh Out Loud Awards 2023! She loves creating books and comics with friends and getting inspired by batting around ideas and drawings with them. Unicorn, Narwhal, Mermaid and Jellyfish are ready for an adventure, and, as Unicorn quite rightly points out, nothing is more adventurous than travelling into SPACE.Sometimes people come to stories through the pictures instead of the words, and if they realise the illustrator is an actual person, they might think, hey, I could draw a story, too! And I also get help from people at Scholastic - Louisa Danquah, Bethan Dewey, Harriet Dunlea and others - who help spread the word about the book, so people know it’s out there! In the book, I show Unicorn’s friends helping him, and that might be helpful for you; often I create much better stories when I work with friends and we can bat ideas around together. British actress Kate Winslet has performed a surprise reading to the crowd’s delight at Camp Bestival Shropshire.

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When the story was first released in 1962, Peter was among the first African-American characters to be featured in a major children's book. Unicorn assumes that the other unicorns on Unicorn Planet will be the best, most fabulous friends, and he runs off and leaves Mermaid, Narwhal and Jellyfish in a lurch. Other times I just need space and quiet to get on with things, but some of the best thing I’ve written have been in awkward situations, like on a plane with only a phone and no notebook to hand, or in a noisy cafe. Winslet’s upcoming projects include a biographical film, in which she stars as Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, a fashion model-turned-war correspondent for Vogue, which will be one of the 37 world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September. When his underwater friends try to join in, he turns into a Grumpycorn, but despite his rude behaviour, his kindly friends don’t give up on him and work together to help him out.The Titanic actress, who had gone to the festival with her family, said in a quote to the PA news agency: “I’ve been to many countries but my favourite country is England and my favourite festival is Camp Bestival.

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This entertaining picture book about friendship, collaboration and determination is a delight to share with young children. Celebrate all things Grumpycorn with this brand new interview with superstar author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre! When Unicorn has gone off with his ‘fabulous friends’, there’s a moment when Mermaid and Narwhal have got caught up in Unicorn’s idea that they belong on the planet that are populated by creatures the most similar to them.

On New Year’s Day, French pop phenomenon Christine and The Queens takes to the stage of the Royal Festival Hall, sitting in a suspended crescent moon, to tell the story of a polar bear who has a new job as a moon keeper. Sporting superstar Anthony Joshua is also appearing on the much-loved children’s show in the run up to Christmas. However, if someone would bring me cookies (like our mermaid cook did) I would be all over my grumpy mood and shove all the cookies in my mouth. That journalist deleted what he’d written, and wrote much better things when the campaign really started making a difference in the publishing industry. The stories ends with all of the silly friends writing the most fabulous story in the world all together.