US Edition is out now! BONE TALK has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal and other children's book prizes. Published by David Fickling Books in the UK, by Anvil in the Philippines and by Scholastic in the US.
• NBC News 13 Best Asian American Children's and Young Adult Books for 2019
• Washington Post's Best Children's Books for 2019.
US edition cover illustration is by Jap Mikel; UK/Philippine edition cover is by Kerby Rosanes
IS IT A MERMAID? illustrated by Francesca Chessa was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. It was published in the UK and the US by Otter-Barry Books. SIRENA BA YA? – a bilingual Filipino edition – has been published by Adarna Books. It has been featured on Milkshake TV.
SHINE was listed for the Guardian Children's Book Prize. It is published by Penguin Random House in the UK and by Anvil in the Philippines. UK cover illustration by David Dean. Philippine cover illustration by Ricky Villabona
TALL STORY was listed for 13 prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Blue Peter, the Branford Boase and the Waterstones Prize. It is published by Penguin Random House in the US and the UK, by Anvil in the Philippines, and as Una Storia Gigante in Italy by Rizzoli,. UK cover illustration by David Dean. Philippine cover by Rommel Joson
My story Mimoo and Mum-Mum is featured in ONE SNOWY NIGHT, an anthology of animal tales published by Stripes in October 2018. Illustrations by Alison Edgson
Illustration at right by Galia Bernstein for Hare Takes a Wife one of the stories in my anthology of animal trickster stories ANIMAL TRICKSTERS, for the Oxford Reading Tree Series.