Two brothers, one serum, and a world of trouble!
Ali was a local newspaper reporter and columnist before joining BBC
local radio as a producer and presenter, and then chucked in the
safe job to be dangerously freelance and write scripts and
manuscripts. Her first venture was as a comedy columnist on the BBC
Radio's top-rated Woman's Hour and Home Truths programmes.
Ali lives in Southampton with her husband and sons and would never
kill a creepy-crawly of any kind. They are more scared of her than
she is of them. (Creepy-crawlies, not her husband and sons.) Ross
Collins is winner of the Royal Mail Book Award. Ross was born in
Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in
1994 with 1st Degree in Illustration and spent two years in London
before returning to Glasgow. He spends time illustrating picture
books, watching cartoons, cat
juggling and precariously swinging backwards on chairs. He has
illustrated over thirty children's books so far and written four of
them. The Sea Hole won 1st place in the 1994 Macmillan Prize and
Supposing
gained, among other prizes, a Blue Ribbon Award in the US.
`Praise for SWITCH
This book has helped my son, 5, move on from picture books at bed
time to one with more words. An excellent choice for reluctant
readers who will be thrilled at the idea of turning into a bug, mad
inventors and lots of adventures.
'
Amazon Reviewer
`The book is great fun and involves the reader, who really feels as
though they are part of the story. Along the way the reader learns
a surprising amount about pond life.
'
www.parentsintouch.co.uk
`Praise for Ali Sparkes's Frozen in Time, winner of the Blue Peter
Book of the Year Award
'I know now what they mean by a plot that is toe-curlingly good . .
. brilliantly inventive and rollicking fantastical adventure'
'
Bookbag
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'Frozen in Time shows [Ali's] skill at fusing traditional
children's storytelling with modern tales . . . Sparkes's sci-fi
conspiracy thrills will keep 21st-century kids transfixed'
'
Books Quarterly
`'It was outstanding. It blew me away'
'
Jamie Fenlon, judge on the Blue Peter book award panel
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