Matt Haig
As well as being a number one bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages. Most recently, The Truth Pixie was a Sunday Times children’s bestseller. And his novel A Boy Called Christmas is currently being made into a major film from the makers of Paddington.
Emily Gravett is an award-winning writer and illustrator. She won her first CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal with the picture book Wolves and received the award for a second time with Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears. Emily lives in Brighton with her family and their two dogs.
“Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
Evie and the Animals is out now!
Evie posters and bookmarks
If you’d like an Evie and the Animals poster, whether it’s to decorate your bedroom or a bookshop, we’ve got one that you can download and print! And bookmarks too!
An Evie Activity Pack!
True or false animal facts, a spot the difference, a wordsearch and more! Download this Evie and the Animals activity pack to use at home or in school.
“When Aada started her new school, the pixie came too. But this school was a place, where it was hard to be true.”
“The reason Evie was special is that she had an Ability. The Ability had a capital A because it was a very important ability. She could communicate with animals.”
Here is the very start of the very special, brand new audio edition of The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig, read by none other than Olivia Colman! And for every copy sold of this exclusive edition, we’re donating 50p to Unicef UK. Get it at Audible!
(The video’s animated with illustrations from the book by Chris Mould!)
Read Like a Writer with our new podcast
We’ve launched a new podcast together with Faber and Serpent’s Tail: called Read Like a Writer, it’s a celebration of authors, books and independent bookshops. The first episode featured our very own Matt Haig (author of the number one bestseller Notes on a Nervous Planet). And episode number two was with E. Foley & B. Coates, authors of What Would Boudica Do? from Faber. Subscribe to Read Like a Writer through your favourite podcast app now!
In a short extract from his book, Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig talks about the news and about anxiety – and the relationship between the two. Narration from the audiobook, read by the author.
