It’s Back To School time (for me too, sob) – but back in those heady days of summer, I asked you to design a fabulously Famous Five-y book cover to celebrate the new audiobook of PEA’S BOOK OF HOLIDAYS.

And the winner of a complete set of four PEA’S BOOK audiobooks, badges, bookmarks and marshmallows is…
Grace, age 10, from Hampshire!
Grace chose to illustrate one of Tinkerbell’s longed-for Famous Five titles, Five Get Lost in a Monster Jungle and Get Savagely Eaten By Lions – and what a fantastic job she did! I’m a bit sad I can’t pop down to Waterstones to buy it right now.

She even included an enticing blurb:
A career in publishing beckons, I reckon! In the meantime, Grace, thank you for making me smile, and enjoy your prize. (And please ask a parent or guardian to email me if you’d prefer to receive an alternative to the bag of marshmallows.)
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I’ve been hard at work on SAM’S BOOK OF SECRETS for the last few months: more details coming soon.
But till then, I’m hugely looking forward to Wednesday 10th September, when I’ll be joining my lovely editor @ReadingRuthie for Twitter’s #ukmgchat to talk about writing (and reading) series fiction for 8-12s. Readers, writers, parents, booksellers, librarians, teachers, general kidlit booknerdy folks: come and join in from 8pm. From past experience, it will be a joyful riot of typos, burnt dinners, and a bit where everyone goes ‘ooh, I loved that too, I thought it was just me!’