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The Queen of the Korrigans on Read Me A Story Ink

I am delighted to announce that the wonderful Robert Topp, who runs the fabulous website and podcast Read Me A Story Ink, has just recorded a reading of my retelling and adaptation of the beautiful Breton fairytale, ‘The Queen of the Korrigans’, and it’s now available both to listen to and read (and both together, if you like). Bob’s clear warm narration is absolutely pitch-perfect, as is the music he’s chosen to highlight the story. Hope you enjoy!

The Queen of the Korrigans was first published in French Fairy Fairy Tales, my collection, with illustrator Lorena Carrington, of newly-translated and retold fairy tales from France. Bob has also recorded another story from that collection, The Booted Cat (my new translation and retelling of Charles Perrault’s famous tale, most often known in English as Puss in Boots).

Illustration below copyright Lorena Carrington, from ‘the Queen of the Korrigans’ in French Fairy Tales.

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Podcast interview about French Fairy Tales

Delighted to announce the release of my interview with Claudine Tinellis’ fabulous podcast, Talking Aussie Books, which has gone live today. It’s very much a discussion focussed around French Fairy Tales and the stories I retold within it. I really enjoyed chatting with Claudine about it all! Also talked about some of my other 2020 books later in the interview.

You can listen to the full podcast interview here.

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Join the Armidale Parade and The Wrong Spoon: two lovely new readings of my work

Very pleased to let you know about a couple of fabulous new readings of my work: a virtual storytime reading at the wonderful new England Regional Art Museum (NERAM, in Armidale, of Join the Armidale Parade, my picture book with Kathy Creamer, published in 2019 by Little Pink Dog Books. Enjoy all the colour and fun of the big parade in the reading(especially needed these days, where sadly such events cannot be held…)  On the page at NERAM, you’ll also find some great activities created by Kathy, centred around the book, such as mask-making and colouring-in and drawing pages.

 

As well, that wonderful reader Robert Topp from Read Me A Story Ink has just done a great audio recording of The Wrong Spoon, which was published last year in the anthology A Christmas Cornucopia, edited by Beattie Alvarez and David

Illustration by Fiona McDonald from ‘The Wrong Spoon’ by Sophie Masson, published in A Christmas Cornucopia(

Allan and published by Christmas Press. As the opening music to the story indicates, The Wrong Spoon is a humorous Sorcerer’s Apprentice sort of story, and was a lot of fun to write. And I just love the way Bob reads it!