Matt Haig
“To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act.”
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Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. He has also written many books for children, including most recently the Sunday Times bestseller, The Truth Pixie, and he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
The follow-up to the number one Sunday Times bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive
“You might think you know about Father Christmas. And I'm sure you do know some things. You probably know about the Toy Workshop and the reindeer. But the thing you probably don't know about is me...”
You can get these free Christmas-themed teaching resources for children aged 7–9! Make an amazing Christmas display for your classroom, or learn about Queen Victoria and more.
You can get these free Christmas-themed teaching resources for children aged 7–9! Make an amazing Christmas display for your classroom, or learn about Queen Victoria and more.
You can get these free Christmas-themed teaching resources for children aged 7–9! Make an amazing Christmas display for your classroom, or learn about Queen Victoria and more.
“You are meant to be frightened when you see a ghost but I was not frightened because it felt completely normal which is weird because I had never seen a ghost before. He was just standing there behind the smoke of Big Vics cigar and he was looking at me and not scared of my eyes like everyone else was.”
“I have to tell you how it was, exactly as I saw it, because this was the end and the start of everything, wasn't it? So come on, Terence, get on with it, you don't have all day.”
“Dogs like to talk. We are talking all the time, non-stop. To each other, to humans, to ourselves. Talk, talk, talk . . . During every sniff, every bark, every crotch nuzzle, every spray of a lamppost, we are speaking our minds. So if you want the truth, ask the dog”
“I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.”
“I know that some of you reading this are convinced humans are a myth, but I am here to state that they do actually exist”
“She was the first child. The girl who saved Christmas. And Father Christmas would never forget it…”
Listen to Stephen Fry read from A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig! But only if you believe in impossible things.
