There has been a terrible mistake!

Months ago, when my mind was occupied with other things like, oh, saving the world (or at least my own skin), I was asked if I approved of my book, THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET, being given away to students in the UK, or if I was all “booked up.” I hastily replied that indeed I was booked up, meaning that I was very busy at the moment—in particular I had just been booked into a very exclusive resort hotel in Mexico that for some reason everybody referred to as a “jail.” (True, the food wasn’t very good, and there plenty of rats and people in chains, and I barely escaped alive, but that’s another story.) The last thing I wanted to think about was the awful possibility of more people getting their hands on my dangerous and extremely secret book.

Well, you know the rest. As it turns out, Booked Up is...

“I’m leaving my job,” I told Steven Gerrard. I’d just finished doing an interview with him in. This was some time in 2007.

I thought you might like to know how the book Don’t you Dare, Dragon! was created.

It’s an interesting journey, probably more complicated than you think!

Recipe:

1 inspiring woman – Nana Josie
1 wonderful granddaughter – the shy, arty Mira Levenson
1 family in chaos
1 writing group run by the eccentric Pat Print and her sheepdog, Moses
1 boy with a serious attitude and a hidden past – Jidé Jackson
1 skateboarder and unintentional poet – Ben Gbemi
1 big-hearted best friend who wishes you’d tell her your secrets – Millie Lockhart
1 diary
1 artichoke-heart charm
 Love lost and found

You must have heard of the lady who had 23 sons and named each one ‘Dave’; or the man who crawled around his floorless room; or the octopus who woke up to an alarm-clocktopus; or the puffin who lived in a muffin? Well, if you haven’t, dip into a book called Pumpkin Grumpkin, a collection of nonsense poems from around the world and you’ll be sure to find them.