tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62514766245124675322024-03-18T20:27:02.518-07:00Ally KennenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-35173138493267882512018-02-07T14:55:00.000-08:002018-02-07T14:58:53.845-08:00THE SECRET VIKING ADVENTURE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I'm delighted to introduce my new'ish book. 'The Secret Viking Adventure.' This was first published as 'SPARKS' in 2010 but now it has a new title and a great new cover. I am still looking for an English essay, 'The Last Request' which I wrote for my GCSE coursework, which became SPARKS. I have it in a box somewhere, complete with red-biro teacher comments...<br />
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It's about 3 kids who want to give their beloved Grandad a Viking funeral. I think readers aged 8 -14 would enjoy it.... (though my Dad says of all the books I've written, it's his favourite)<br />
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I'm very pleased my story has the chance to set sail again.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-26324448168657727312017-02-13T15:08:00.001-08:002017-02-14T03:02:15.926-08:00News about The Everything Machine<br />
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Here is a review by book blogger bookish Outsider<br />
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And here are ten random things about The Everything Machine, thanks Fiction Fascination!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-70681492301913087182017-02-02T02:18:00.001-08:002017-02-02T02:18:20.877-08:00THE EVERYTHING MACHINE is published today!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-49837985848237115112016-11-18T04:01:00.001-08:002016-11-18T04:16:50.068-08:00THE EVERYTHING MACHINE! New Book, out in Feb 2017<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_xUkYBfQ3eR0QW0GmTDXRHurL5ZH_Y71517FQLohVvJQ93tWvE9Zf7oRgkPSwtbZa4nMyLIaapbTPfxjcyx9IHbwUDUUMfnotFMxa-oC5fvV7M55OzqkTCsI9GhfaotdnVC6zzMTRDkj/s1600/51ptZQUzYeL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_xUkYBfQ3eR0QW0GmTDXRHurL5ZH_Y71517FQLohVvJQ93tWvE9Zf7oRgkPSwtbZa4nMyLIaapbTPfxjcyx9IHbwUDUUMfnotFMxa-oC5fvV7M55OzqkTCsI9GhfaotdnVC6zzMTRDkj/s400/51ptZQUzYeL.jpg" width="257" /></a><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>So my new book,<span style="font-size: large;">'THE EVERYTHING MACHINE,</span>'is going to be published in February 2017.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Olly, 11, receives the wrong delivery. The giant crate does not contain a rabbit hutch from eBay, no! instead it is a NASA BSA MOD prototype-cutting edge, one of a kind, 3D printing machine.</b></span><br />
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Here is a piece about the eternal Age Banding Books debate. I wrote it when I was supposed to be writing something else, which is always a good way to get some kind of writing done.<br />
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Everyone seems to have a strong opinion on age banding books.<br />
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The girl found the books in the school library and read them all, with her parent’s sigh of defeat. It was only a suggestion, after all.</div>
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Hurrah for the girl! I hear. She got hold of those books! She did not allow herself to be censored. Freedom! Reading! Adventure! Growing Up!</div>
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But I did not think they were really suitable for her. Not quite yet. In a few years she would love them. At the moment her favourite thing is <i>Malory Towers.</i> Her reading age is far above this, but emotionally, this is what she’s comfortable with. I know this, because she is my daughter, and I wrote the damn books in question.</div>
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Children mature so massively in such a short space of time. Everyone remembers a relative who says ‘WOW haven’t you GROWN!’ Which is always so annoying because of its banality but it <b>is</b> dramatic because children seem to morph every six months or so, with an updated body, different interests, vocabulary, sets of feelings, friends and of course, rapidly expanding thoughts and ideas. </div>
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But at the same time the popular view seems to be that exposing these growing children, via the ‘safe’ pages of a book to sex, violence, divorce, misery, war, bloodshed, terminal illness, death, should be unfettered. Let them explore our gruesome world on paper first. A bit of light literary incest at tea time, followed by a nice dose of kidnapping, children murdering each other and self harm at bedtime. Our bright little nine year old is more than capable of reading the words, and of course, quickly assimilates the content amongst her spelling tests, gerbil feeding and friendship wrangles.</div>
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But authors! Have you comforted a terrified child in the dead of night, her imagination fed by your fictional nightmares? Have you seen the steady drip of ‘adult’ themes that are drowning our children in darkness? From the plastic glitter of girl tween-dom, with the celebrity, weight/shopping/lipstick girl magazines mixed in with good dose of fictional grief and torment? Why is it OK to age band films, but not books, are they less powerful?</div>
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Children get spooked! I know an eight year old boy who will not read, or be read, ANYTHING where anyone gets hurt or frightened. <b>It doesn’t take much to give a child a nightmare. </b>The wonderful Judy Blume says that a child will put a book down that is not right for her. No she won’t! I picked up Amityville Horror as a twelve year old and was SO frightened by it, I had to finish it, or it would work its bad magic on me. After reading, I could not have it in the house and went out and BURIED it in the woods by our house. I put a rock on it. I avoided that glade in the future. It filled my head with darkness and horror for a very long time. My young life was tainted by its poison. Books are powerful. A ten year old’s world can crumble because of <i>a broken pencil case. </i>Because of a <i>single mean word </i>at the wrong time, So is it really appropriate, or kind, to expose them to the darkest horrors of adult life?</div>
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Of course, we cannot protect our children from the sadder parts of life. It is part of growing up to recognise and process them. I’m not suggesting that we imprison our children’s minds forever in a (sinister) world of immortal bunnies and everyone being jolly nice, imposing intellectual malnutrition in the name of preserving innocence. Of COURSE good, well written, gritty, stories are crucial to understanding our world, developing our empathy etc etc, and reading <i>Jilly Cooper</i> as a young teenager was extremely funny and diverting, and I knew it was an adult book anyway. But maybe there is a case for letting us parents know, on the cover of ‘children’s’ books, some of the content within. A recommended age would be helpful. Not so that your mature, book addicted ten year old CANNOT read a book for 12 +, and is miserably marooned on her age band until the year turns, no way! but so that she, and her parents can make an informed decision. Yes, the children might make a beeline for the ‘older’ tomes, but at least they are forewarned.</div>
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Parents belt into book shops, or glide online, searching, searching for something fabulous and suitable that their little 'un will LOVE. They probably haven’t read all the latest reviews. They don't know about the prizes. They don't idle away on Twitter. The cover is all they have to go on.</div>
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Authors are (mostly) not child experts. <b>They produce stories, not therapy, from their lurid and wild imaginations</b>. Keep them coming! Keep them crazy and bitter and beautiful. But give us parents, and teachers some help here. Parents are not <b>The Man</b>, seeking to censor and hold back our children’s imaginations and growth, like we are all versions of the Dursley Family in <i>Harry Potter.</i> We’re not all over protective nit wits, seeking to stifle our little ones and keep them in the cradle. But we know more about our children than authors do. We want them to thrive and come alive, to set their minds racing. deliciously, dangerously thrilled and dance within the pages of mayhem and mystery.</div>
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But we don’t want them terrified, or traumatised. We don’t want them whimpering, nightly, under the duvet, fearful of what horrors lurk out in the dark, and worse, in the ‘real’ world, endlessly ruminating on their parents potential death or obsessing over the kidnapping of a sibling, or the stalking by vile unknowns on the internet.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Authors! Don’t throw them helpless on the madder reaches of your imaginations too early.</span></div>
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Why do we want children to grow up even faster than they do, extremely well, by themselves? Why inflict adult miseries on a child. Leave them alone! Let them laugh! Let them hunt out their own stepping stones. <b>Let their exposure be measured, so they don’t get overwhelmed by all the darkness of our world all at once.</b></div>
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There is a perceived danger that readers will feel stigmatised by reading a book with a younger age band. Their peers will drag them out of the library laughing horribly, and dandle the offending text above them like an implement of torture. </div>
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Well, yes, sometimes of course this happens. But quite a lot of children are really rather kind and wouldn’t mention it, or even notice. But yes, it might put some children off a few books.</div>
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My ‘younger’ books are officially for ages 8-12. But if I was Supreme Queen of Everything, <b>I would say, on the cover, they were for ages 8-100.</b> This would be a more gentle, inclusive approach to age banding. The content is suitable for younger readers, but older ones might like them too.</div>
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A recent Scholastic survey suggested what a lot of children really want in books is humour. </div>
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Which is deliciously childish.</div>
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I include a picture of the front pages of my 12 year old diary. I howled with mirth when I found it, such a tender young mind. But for all the lewd bravado, it remains very, very childish. What book would you recommend for that little girl? She talks the talk, but (shhhh) <i>she still plays with her Sindy Dolls! She makes crowns for them! </i></div>
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By the way, my daughter gave me some VERY funny looks when she was reading my YA books. She told my son ‘Mummy has a side to her you never knew existed.’ Which I thought was funny. Then she said there was too much bad language (many other young readers have made this comment over the years)</div>
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Then she said ‘She’s got an EVIL mind.’ </div>
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Which I hope isn’t true. And if it is, I’d rather not inflict it on the ten year olds.</div>
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<i>Ally Kennen. Author of eleven books for children and teenagers and mother of four children. Her first book, Beast, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Booktrust Teenage Prize and won The Manchester Children’s Book Award.</i></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-64684212385409330842015-10-19T02:11:00.003-07:002015-10-19T06:13:46.167-07:00Carnegie Medal 2016Very pleased that How To Speak Spook (And Stay Alive) has been nominated for the 2016 Carnegie Medal.<br />
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Here is the list of nominated titles...<br />
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<a href="http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_2016_nom_ann_carn.html">http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_2016_nom_ann_carn.html</a><br />
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AND just discovered Spook has been shortlisted for the 2016 Hounslow Junior Book Award.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-62494574267572468782015-05-07T01:11:00.001-07:002015-05-07T04:05:28.146-07:00'HOW TO SPEAK SPOOK (AND STAY ALIVE)' BOOK BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!<span style="font-size: large;">Today,</span> as well as the rather less pressing matter of a general election, is the official publication day of my new book for 8 - 12 year old readers. <span style="font-size: large;">'HOW TO SPEAK SPOOK (AND STAY ALIVE)</span>'<br />
Donald, eleven, might find school difficult, (he last got an achievement certificate 5 years ago... for putting his shoes on <i>fairly</i> quickly) but there is something he is very good at...<br />
Talking to ghosts... it's a good job as his dad has been dead for 8 years but is STILL HERE.<br />
Donald, his un-best friend Merry and the crazy Danny Olini track down the source of a ferocious force that is ravaging the Jurassic coast. But who is hunting who?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">'HOW TO SPEAK SPOOK' </span> has bad jokes, foul tempered spirits, singing ghosts, deadly action, foolish vicars and a very short-sighted mother.<br />
I hope you like it!<br />
No, actually I hope you LOVE it!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Reviews</span><br />
<a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=How_to_Speak_Spook_(and_Stay_Alive)_by_Ally_Kennen">http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=How_to_Speak_Spook_(and_Stay_Alive)_by_Ally_Kennen</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/view/34350">http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/view/34350</a><br />
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<a href="https://bookwormbirds.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/how-to-speak-spookand-stay-alive-ally-kennen/">https://bookwormbirds.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/how-to-speak-spookand-stay-alive-ally-kennen/</a><br />
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<a href="http://scribblesbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/how-to-speak-spook-and-stay-alive-by.html">http://scribblesbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/how-to-speak-spook-and-stay-alive-by.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can buy it here!</span> (Amazon can't meet the demand today :) )<br />
<a href="http://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/how-to-speak-spook-and-stay-alive/9781407148755">http://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/how-to-speak-spook-and-stay-alive/9781407148755</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-35546368084475123712015-01-07T08:43:00.003-08:002015-01-07T08:43:48.933-08:00How To Speak Spook (And Stay Alive)Here is the cover of my new book.<br />
Crazy! I love it. It will be published in April.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-33229984958321951902014-11-11T06:46:00.000-08:002014-11-11T06:48:55.867-08:00HOW TO SPEAK SPOOK (AND STAY ALIVE)... is the title of my new children's novel, publishing in April 2015. It is being currently copy-edited.<br />
I loved writing this book. It is aimed at slightly younger readers, maybe a confident seven year old reader, but really for the 8 -12 age group.<br />
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Donald is An Amazing boy who can see and talk to ghosts. It's a good job he can, because his dad is one...<br />
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But he has to engage all his supernatural powers to fight a deadly wild ghostly force, that is whipping up destruction and madness on the south coast...<br />
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I tried to make this book fast and funny. I made myself laugh but that's fairly easy.<br />
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Can't wait to see what my younger readers think...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-87778910035608367962014-06-15T01:19:00.004-07:002014-06-15T01:21:01.142-07:00Midnight Pirates wins a prize!I am delighted to report that Midnight Pirates has won the middle category of The Rotherham Children's Book Award 2014. The ceremony was held in the gorgeous New York Stadium in Rotherham, and attended by hundreds of local children and a healthy turn out of shortlisted authors.<br />
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The children had the opportunity to meet all the authors before the ceremony, and then each author spoke for a few minutes, then the children were awarded prizes for the best reviews.<br />
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And after that, VICTORY! I resisted the urge to punch the air and howl as that wouldn't have been seemly, but I did when I got home.<br />
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Thank you Rotherham!<br />
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I don't print out my manuscripts until at least the 3rd draft, so when I do, it is a BIG DAY.<br />
So today is a BIG DAY!<br />
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Here is PROOF of my manuscript. I promise it is not all blank pages inside. It is about 60,000 words long and is roughly for 8-14 year olds<br />
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Current titles are<br />
1) The Nothings<br />
2)The Extraordinary Gifts of Donald Memphis<br />
3) How to Kill a Ghost<br />
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I still have to go through it and cut out a few (thousand) words, and go through my notes and write in changes and do some doodles because I'd love there to be some illustrations (not by me in final version)<br />
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This book will be sent to my editor at Scholastic this week and hopefully she will like it. (eeekk)<br />
Then there will be more editing over the summer (or a complete rewrite if it is all pants) and fingers crossed it will be published in January next year. <br />
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So it is still very rough, like it has crawled out of a marsh, but over the next few months I, with my editor's guidance, will polish and buff and bully it until it is as sleek and sparkling as it can be...<br />
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In the beginning of my YA novel, BULLET BOYS there is a reference to a story about 2 hares who made time stand still. Here is the original story of The Two Hares, told by Radley Greenslade to my aunt Jackie Hill. He also told the story to my mum, who told it to me. It was recorded in the 1980's.<br />
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If you want a real Somerset/Devon accent, here it is! I have hurriedly transcribed the story below the photos.<br />
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ally-kennen/radley">https://soundcloud.com/ally-kennen/radley</a><br />
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This picture below, taken by my aunt in the 1980's, showing Radley Greenslade telling one of his tales to my mum, and her cows! And above, Radley at Cooksley Farm. photos copyright J.R. Hill<br />
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<u>Transcription of tape of 'The Two Hares' -Radley Greenslade</u></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> What d’you want know about the hare dear?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Three year ago in May I was going down over the farm down over Lower Cooksley.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I never saw such a sight in my life, my dear</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The sun was shining really lovely. And when I was going down over coming in from West Withy side,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There was a lady coming down across carrying a basket on her left arm like a shopping basket.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And she was, I never saw a lady dressed better in me life</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She had on a lovely reddy, reddy, checked dress, really lovely</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And coming up from Cuckles, from Upton, up from the wood there, hence down’ bottom</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I saw a shadow and When I saw he come on up. He changed into a man. One of the finest man ever I saw in me life. He had on a grey trilby hat with a great wide black bend and a white collar and a lovely black charcoal grey black suit and grey black grey overcoat.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A fine man. A parson twas. A squire parson. I should think of the forest</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And as I went down the shadow kept coming up went to me. And when i got down there</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Got down there a flock of sheep for fifty years</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They went on around in front of me and I went over and they went over in front of me in a circle like a horseshoe. I stood with my stick watching them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was like heaven. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And when those two come up on the brink of the firs</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Those two people they met as they come across the path over the stake wire and come across the over side.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He came up the path there and</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They met fifty yard away from me. And they turned into hares.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She turned a lady hare and he turned into a gentleman.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He turned into like Rupert the bear to start with, Zackly the same sort of clothes as Rupert the Bear.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And as they went off they clasped hands and they went on</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She never changed her dress or nothing of her sort at all. But he did.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And they clasped hands and they started dancing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I never saw two people dance with so much love and affection in my life as they had. Really lovely. There aint no people there seen such affection.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They danced there for a time and the heavens. When they was dancing the heavens and everything stood still. The water stood still. Heaven on earth. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Heaven opened up to them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Heaven on earth. Just like heaven. Nothing ever moved. Nothing never moved at all.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The water and the bushes and the leaves were as still as still could be be. And i was just like i was in heaven watching they.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The sheep was the left hand side of me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everything stood still. Just like in another world</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I caint understand it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She didn’t change her dress but the gentleman did. He changed from Morning suit back into another suit and when he finished up he had on a lovely charcoal black suit and white.... white collar...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">White tie. Pure white cloth</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beautifull clean. White collar, white tie up round his head and his ears went up. Pure white cloth. He had on High Top hat.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And he had gaiters Three buttons. Lovely pair of black shoes. I’d thing he took Size 14 shoes. For certain.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I never saw such a man</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They danced. He kept on changing clothes. He did.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Old squire , old landlord of Cooksley. I should say, come back, come back in the shape of a hare.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What i think about it, twas an omen from the dear lord that I was going to lose me home. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To tell me I was going to lose me home.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have seen on the television, talks like these , people interviewing me and they 'baint believed.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It happened to me</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is fact dear, not fiction. This is really fact, not fiction. This is fact my dear, not fiction. It’s fact, darling, not fiction.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Not fiction.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not fiction.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m 69.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Back in my young days.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is no fairy tale</span></div>
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Here are the new covers for BEAST, BERSERK and BEDLAM. I think they look great. What do you think?<br />
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<u>New Book Update: </u><br />
It's happening! Due to deliver it to my publishers on May 1st. Currently being tinkered with and road tested. It is for readers age 8/9 + and is a story about the supernatural, oh and a boy called Donald Memphis.<br />
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Am still thinking of a title…<br />
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<u>Recent school visits.</u><br />
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Thanks to Shapwick School<br />
Lydeard St Lawrence Primary and<br />
West Somerset College<br />
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For some great school visits.<br />
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<u>Awards</u><br />
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I am looking forward to representing Midnight Pirates at<br />
the Dudley Book Award and The Stockton Book of The Year in the next couple of weeks, and then the East Sussex and the Rotherham Book Awards in June. I am very pleased about these, but now back to THE BOOK.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-29470347105740838252013-10-21T01:58:00.000-07:002013-10-21T02:09:00.853-07:00UpdateI am writing a new book for children aged 8+ with a large supernatural element... I aim to deliver it at the beginning of April and it will hopefully be published by Scholastic early in 2015.<br />
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No title yet. Any suggestions?<br />
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In the last few weeks I have visited<br />
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Braunton Academy<br />
Bideford College<br />
South Molton Community School<br />
Uffculme School.<br />
The Castle School, Taunton<br />
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I am soon to visit Axminster School in Devon and Ridgeway School in Swindon.<br />
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But now it's back to The Book.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-36138925541333757802013-06-21T10:51:00.001-07:002013-10-21T02:05:08.610-07:00Reading ChallengeTomorrow I will be Guest Speaker at Taunton Preparatory School Parents' Day.<br />
I am planning to set an epic reading challenge. I was very inspired by my trip to Tavistock College, Carnegie Medal shadowing event, (Congratulations to Sally Gardner and Maggot Moon who won the medal this year) where I met 3 girls from a Plymouth school, who had read all the books on the longlist, that's over 50 books in 5 months, and they were reading them for pleasure!<br />
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Here are just some of the children's books that I think are fantastic (this is my only criteria) that I'm going to challenge the children to read, for the sheer love of reading, in the next few years. There are many many more I think should be included but I won't have time tomorrow to mention them all. (or fit them in the crate)<br />
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What books would you have on your challenge list?<br />
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I LOVE NaNoWriMo, the movement that challenges anyone to write 50,000 words in a month... for fun!<br />
So I was delighted to be interviewed by them. Here I am talking about mixing babies with book deadlines<br />
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<a href="http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/51231553389/i-published-my-nano-novel-ally-kennen-on-revision-and">http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/51231553389/i-published-my-nano-novel-ally-kennen-on-revision-and</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-49686851527845257132013-05-16T08:17:00.000-07:002013-05-17T00:50:16.790-07:00Past lives...musicAll right. Very rarely I am asked EXACTLY what singing and songwriting I mention in my BIOG. (And NO I will not sing at your book event unless you provide an 11 piece band, thank you very much) (though I did sing a Pentangle folk song at a book festival in Sardinia once, but was under EXTREME pressure, so it served them right)<br />
SO here is a selection.<br />
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Epiphany (above) is a track I wrote and recorded with Dan Brown <a href="http://danbrownmusic.co.uk/">http://danbrownmusic.co.uk/</a> a few years ago..<br />
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Here'sn a track I recorded for band Elevator Suite, a cover of Idris Muhammad's 'I Feel Music'<br />
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I co-wrote a song with Dance band Way Out West about a hundred years ago. Here is the mix I like best (bit sad and gloomy mind)<br />
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HARD HOUSE<br />
Ha ha ha!! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdNW7W3k7g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdNW7W3k7g</a><br />
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I never knew this existed. It's a version of the song 'Silence' by the excellent <span dir="auto">Sarah McLachlan. In my 20's I did a number of singing sessions for international DJ Steve Hill, recording songs like this for a session fee, with the brief to try and make them sound as much like the original as possible, which were then turned into banging hard house and trance mixes(!) (most of them I never knew about) I've started to track some of them down. Goodness me! I'm not on the credits, but it is me warbling away. </span>Anyway, this track is rather good fun (said in Jolly Aunty Voice) <br />
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Might post some more tracks here at a later date WATCH OUT!<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-82606649851031755382013-04-13T13:04:00.004-07:002013-04-13T13:15:54.930-07:00Oo La La!Look at this! Smashing French Edition of SPARKS. This is fantastique, mais oui.<img class="fullScreen" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tXaiOCiTL._SL500_.jpg" style="height: 407px; margin-left: 237px; margin-top: 10px; width: 302px;" /><br />
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And here is the full size picture. Really cool.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-49568154354804035932013-02-25T02:08:00.001-08:002013-02-25T02:08:40.903-08:00Booktrust review of Midnight Pirates<br />
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Two new reviews of Midnight Pirates<br />
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<a href="http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/books/32798">http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/books/32798</a><br />
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<a href="http://fictavia.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/midnight-pirates-ally-kennen/">http://fictavia.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/midnight-pirates-ally-kennen/</a><br />
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<u>Events</u><br />
I am off to Uffculme School in Devon this week, then a mini tour talking about Midnight Pirates for World Book Day/Week at schools in and around London. <br />
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I will also be at the Leipzig Book Festival in Germany later in March, talking about Bullet Boys.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-25687652020283979082013-02-21T14:39:00.000-08:002013-02-21T14:49:11.380-08:00The death of a Theatre<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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The Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton, which has just gone into administration, (Government funding has been slashed) opened in 1977 when I was nearly two years old. It was the only theatre for miles around. The ins and outs of the funding struggle can be read elsewhere, but what did the place mean to one small person, growing up on a farm, sixteen miles away, in the middle of nowhere?<br />
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The first time I went to The Brewhouse is also one of my first memories. My uncle was acting with a troupe on stage. My uncle had been run over by a bus when he was 17 and lost both his legs but was now performing with other disabled actors.<br />
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Another shady, hazy memory: I was taken to the ballet. Imagine that! A scruffy farm girl with a deep interest in cowpats, and only one TV in the house, taken to see such a spectacle. I remember the thump of the dancers' feet on the stage, totally at odds with their pink fairy-like forms.<br />
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My primary school bussed a class of us there and I saw my first professional play: ‘The Selfish Shellfish’ It was dark and scary. A large cloth was used to represent an oil slick. An actress wore a spiked hat, she was an anemone. I had never seen anything like it and it blew my rural brain. (I went to the cinema just twice as a child, these were totally new experiences)<br />
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The theatre, I understood, was where you went and were not allowed to wear your wellies. You wore your best trousers. But of course it became much, much more than that.<br />
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Now eleven, my friend Meena was chosen to sing during a local production of Madame Butterfly, and perform on stage. (She later became a ‘proper’ singer) It felt like an awesome opportunity, and it was. The theatre became a place where, not only could you watch, you could take part. Then somehow I got to join in a young play writer’s workshop. The organisers had <em>come down from Actual London.</em> There was a woman who wore all black! Then my secondary school took us to see a professional touring company perform Romeo and Juliet. It was unexpectedly funny and terrifying and exploded for good those endless excruciating readings in lessons.<br />
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And then, when I developed an interest in music, I got to perform on the stage, in the mighty Battle of the Bands. Singing on a professional stage was a big experience for a person who was used to warbling at school events. (I did end up singing for a living for a while -for better or worse) I also got to perform a play I wrote and acted in for my A level Theatre Studies. <br />
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I remember a woman who used to ramble around the high street and parks of Taunton all day, it seemed, doing nothing particular. She was a well known face and someone I would worry about. Was she OK? She got hold of a camera and eventually The Brewhouse hosted an exhibition of her pictures. The place was packed.<br />
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It is impossible to quantify the value of a small country theatre. At the risk of rambling on, or sounding pompous, the theatre feeds dreams, and creates them. It allows us to clamber out of our backgrounds and go somewhere new, should we wish. Watching brilliant professional touring companies was revelatory. And yes, eventually, the students who learned to work backstage, to operate the bar, who volunteered to help with the lights, the box office, to write and run small shows. We went on and did more things. Things that earned money and paid taxes.<br />
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There is no financial spreadsheet for inspiration, and generating aspiration, and for building confidence and skills.<br />
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And now I have moved back to Somerset and am a firm punter. As well as adult events I regularly take (took) my children to the theatre to see glorious children’s shows, the likes of which are everywhere in the city, and hardly anywhere down here in Somerset. My three year old recently pointed at a picture of a debonair actor who played ‘Ratty’ in The Brewhouse’s in-house production of ‘The Wind in The Willows’ and said ‘I want to be him!’ (an excellent progression from the Power Ranger role model he previously aspired to)<br />
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There are art groups for toddlers, a thriving youth theatre, a cinema. The program is/was packed with every sort of theatre and music you could wish for. And now it has gone. Closed down. It has been stopped in its tracks.<br />
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I’m not even mentioning the hours of pure fun I’ve had at the place, watching brilliant shows, author talks, music, dancing, local and national performers and comedians... I have a friend who has 2 children who have been practising flat out, in all their spare time for the gang shows that the scout organisation performs in April. I imagine all these small people will be very sad.<br />
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The Brewhouse Theatre has touched my life, and thousands and thousands of others.<br />
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What a miserable day this is for Taunton. It has become a little more grey. A little more dead.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-2615226420337754662013-02-05T03:02:00.000-08:002013-02-05T03:02:14.362-08:00MIDNIGHT PIRATES REVIEWED IN THE GUARDIAN<br />
Here is Marcus Sedgwick's review<br />
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The waiting is over! 'Midnight Pirates' is finally here. Miranda, 13, Cal, 16, and Jackie, 10, live in The Dodo Hotel on the beach in Cornwall. When the hotel goes bust and their parents go away, the children run away from school and attempt to run it by themselves. But they attract no ordinary guests...</div>
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Midnight Pirates is an adventure story for children age about 9+ and teens and features mad aunts, sharks, huge ships, fake mermaids, desperate criminals, lots of surfing and swimming, jetskis, hidden caves, bent scientists and bad cooking.</div>
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<u><span style="color: #cc0000;">REVIEWS</span></u><br />
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<a href="http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/books/32798">http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/books/32798</a><br />
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<u><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/02/midnight-pirates-by-ally-kennen-review">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/02/midnight-pirates-by-ally-kennen-review</a></span></u><br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2013/feb/03/review-midnight-pirates-ally-kennen">http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2013/feb/03/review-midnight-pirates-ally-kennen</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Midnight_Pirates_by_Ally_Kennen">http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Midnight_Pirates_by_Ally_Kennen</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=sz&page=book&isbn=9781407129884">http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=sz&page=book&isbn=9781407129884</a><br />
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Author Katy Moran reviews lots of books, and included in her January 2013 lineup is MIDNIGHT PIRATES<br />
<a href="http://katymoran.co.uk/book-review-blog/">http://katymoran.co.uk/book-review-blog/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251476624512467532.post-85664077802437133942013-01-02T13:04:00.000-08:002013-02-05T03:03:07.100-08:00MIDNIGHT PIRATESMy new book gets its first review. It is coming out on Monday January 7th 2013.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Midnight_Pirates_by_Ally_Kennen">http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Midnight_Pirates_by_Ally_Kennen</a><br />
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