Authors Live on Demand
Authors Live is a series of live webcasts, presented in partnership with Scottish Book Trust, featuring world-class author and illustrator events for children and young people.
Puffin Story Makers Show - World Book Day 2020
Read up, speak up and change the world! This 30 minute show for key stage 2 is filled with booky-fun. Join Robin Stevens, author of Murder Most Unladylike and World Book Day book ‘The Case of the Drowned Pearl’, for a game of Extreme Reading you can play in your classroom.
Picture book writer Rashmi Sirdeshpande will be sharing stories of extraordinary people, and debut children’s author and activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied will be reading from ‘You Must Be Layla’ and inspiring activists of all ages to tell their stories and make a change. Plus make sure you’ve got pens and paper ready for a ‘Little Leaders’ draw-along with the illustrator Vashti Harrison.
*This was originally recorded for World Book Day in March, but Puffin have extended access to this while schools are closed.*
Katy Parker and the House that Cried by Margaret Mulligan
When Katy is assigned a history project on World War Two, she moans and groans with the rest of her class. Work? During half term? Simply not fair! But when Katy and her brother wake to find them themselves in 1940s England, school projects are pushed far from their minds.
Can Katy change the course of history and prevent the tragic death of a little girl in a terrifying air raid? And can Katy and her brother make it back home