What a treat we have for you all this week, Storyshaped fans! This week, we're talking to Nicola Penfold, the brilliant author of Where the World Turns Wild, Between Sea and Sky, and Beyond the Frozen Horizon. All Nicola's books have a huge emphasis on the natural world and the place of humans within it, and the interplay between the ecology surrounding us and the emotional landscape within. Her books have an ultimately hopeful message, empowering readers young and old with the power and beauty of the natural world all around us - and as well as that, they're incredibly gripping adventures, too. Come with us as we take a trip through Nicola's bookish memories, and discover the stories which shaped her into the author, and climate activist, she is today.
Nicola's website is: www.nicolapenfold.com
Follow her on Twitter: @nicolapenfold
Follow her on Instagram: @nicolapenfoldauthor
Books mentioned in this week's episode include Nicola's own:
Where The World Turns Wild
Between Sea and Sky
Beyond the Frozen Horizon
and also...
The books of Shirley Hughes
Spot the Dog by Eric Hill
The work of Enid Blyton, including the Famous Five and the Malory Towers books, and The Island of Adventure and The Ship of Adventure
The Jill books by Ruby Ferguson
The Jinny and Shantih books by Patricia Leitch
The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell
The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
Varjak Paw and The Outlaw Varjak Paw by SF Said
The pony books of Christine and Josephine Pullein-Thompson
The Sadlers Wells ballet books by Lorna Hill
A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
The Way to Sattin Shore by Philippa Pearce
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
Calling B for Butterfly by Louise Lawrence
The Last Storyteller by Donna Barba Higuera (The Last Cuentista in the US/Canada)
The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Talking in Whispers James Watson
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
I Am David by Anne Holm
The Silver Sword Ian Seraillier
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