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Happy New Year
It is New Year’s Eve 2024 and I have just learnt that my and David Litchfield’s latest picture book, ‘The Boy, The Troll and The Chalk,’ which was published in 2024, has won the Books for Topics best read aloud book for Key Stage One as nominated by teachers. That was such a lovely surprise…
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Angelo and Angelina
I would love everyone to know about my latest picture book, my first with Walker Books. It’s a Christmassy book, in that it is about two Christmas decorations, two wooden angels called Angelo and Angelina, who have been with their owner, Mrs Lovely, all her life. The book is actually set outside Christmas, in Spring,…
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Sweet Mercies!
‘Sweet Mercies’ is out in paperback today! Today ‘Sweet Mercies’ is out in paperback! It’s the second novel about the nuns of St Philmomena’s. We meet Sisters Margaret, Bridget and Cecilia again, and their friends in the fictional town of Fairbridge, and in this stand alone story, Irish Sister Bridget has to come to terms…
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The Boy, The Troll and the Chalk
Available online from your usual favourite retailers and from bookshops. Here is a link to find an independent bookshop you might wish to support. https://www.booksellers.org.uk/bookshopsearch This is my second book with the amazing illustrator David Litchfield, published by Templar. It starts from the sad truth that, whether we are a child or an adult, when…
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Welcome to my new website!
12th February 2024 This is my first blog post for my new website anneboothauthor.com and I am delighted that you have popped in to have a look! Here you will find news about my latest books and projects, and information about what I have written and maybe some hints about what I am working on…
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Problems with creativity – and a lovely creative video on Tenderness.
I know that many creative people are finding it very hard to create these days. Like the idea of the romantic artist starving in a garret, the idea of artists creating in a crisis, when they are stressed and worried, and broke, and even ill, or worrying about others being ill, or even feeling guilty…
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Hope in a Scary World
(First published for a blog post for An Awfully Big Blog Adventure April 21st 2020) First published here: https://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com At the beginning of this crisis I felt so frightened for my family and friends and myself, and so worried about any of us getting ill and dying. I also felt completely overwhelmed by how impotent and useless…
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A change is as good as a rest
(first posted on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure 21st August 2019) I am just at the end of a lovely holiday, first in Northumberland, and then in Yorkshire, visiting relatives. We took our very elderly dog, Timmy and our younger dog Ben with us. We were a bit worried about Timmy travelling and got some…
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My lovely library Day.
(First posted on ‘An Awfully Big Blog Adventure’.) Sorry this is such a short post, but life is rather hectic at the moment. I just thought I’d share one of the loveliest book-related things to have happened to me recently, which happened this month, on the 4th June, which was my dad’s birthday. He died…
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Looking after yourself as a writer
(First published on ‘My Awfully Big Blog Adventure) I didn’t know, when I started trying to write as a full-time job, that there were some health risks attached, and having encountered some of them, I thought I’d share what I am trying to do about them. In order to stay afloat as a full-time writer,…
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Twin books due on June 9th 2018!
This was originally published here: An Awfully Big Blog Adventure Twin books, non-identical stories, June 9th birth! by Anne Booth I am the fortunate mother of non-identical twins, and on June 9th I will also have non-identical twin books! ‘The Sleepy Hummingbirds’ is for 7-9 year olds and will be published by OUP on the 9th…
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