![]() ![]() Designed by Katherine Millichope Internal illustrations by Elisa Paganelli UK Cover illustration by Melissa Castrillon. It’s taken me 8 months and the imminent publication of her new book The Girl who speaks Bear but I’m beginning to grasp the words to honour how precious this book is. It is moving, thought-provoking, world shaking and comes from a primal place of experience, folk identity and mythology that lives within us all bound and entwined within our very DNA the stories older than time that spun us into being. I will repeat here what I said then, Because it is sublime Sophie. ![]() Back in March Sophie Anderson asked over twitter how did her book The House With Chicken Legs manage to ‘sneak in’ with the pile of giants shortlisted for the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year including Jacqueline Wilson, Hilary McKay and Toni Adeyemi among with the celebrity juggernaut of Davids. ![]()
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