In this week's episode of Storyshaped, come hunting for the Sweet Tree with Nicola Colton...
Nicola is an Irish author and illustrator living in Bristol, but in this episode she shares some of the sheer magic of her childhood, where stories weren't confined to the pages of the books she read but instead seemed to come to life all around her. From finding a Banshee's comb to imagining storms in teacups, Nicola's life has been suffused with, and shaped by, stories from her earliest days. Listen in, and be swept away!
Find Nicola online at her website: www.nicolacolton.com
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Books mentioned in this week's episode include Nicola's own:
Jasper and Scruff
Jasper and Scruff: The Hunt for the Golden Bone
Jasper and Scruff: Take a Bow
Jasper and Scruff: The Great Cat Cake-Off!
Fizzy and Bandit (with Sarah Crossan)
Fizzy and the Party (with Sarah Crossan)
A Dublin Fairytale
A Dublin Christmas
Zim Zam Zoom (with James Carter)
The stories that shaped her include:
Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl, Matilda
Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine
Garfield (comic strip, created by Jim Davis, est. 1978)
Dinosaurs magazine
Treasures of the Earth magazine
Out of this World: The Illustrated Library of the Bizarre and the Extraordinary (24 vols), ed Perrott Philips
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
Sweet Valley High, created by Francine Pascal
The novels of Stephen King and Anne Rice
Jayde Perkins, Mum's Jumper
Paula Bowles, Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab
Freya Hartas and Joseph Coelho, Zombierella and Creeping Beauty
Freya Hartas, Slow Down
Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts
Movie/screen influences include:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
The Simpsons (1989-present)
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