n this interview Tracy sits down with Helen and Thomas Docherty to discuss the creative process, walking to your own beat, and their newest book, Blue Baboon Finds Her Tune, published by Sourcebooks.
About The Authors
Helen is a children’s author based in Swansea, Wales. Her picture books have been translated into 27 languages, shortlisted for various national awards, and staged as plays. The Snatchabook was voted No. 1 in the Kids’ Indie Next List Autumn 2013 in the US and won the Oldham Brilliant Book Award 2014 in the UK, which was voted for by school children. Helen often collaborates with her husband, who is both an illustrator and author, Thomas Docherty.
Blue Baboon Finds Her Tune is their latest book together. Helen worked as a Spanish and French teacher before turning her gift with words to writing for children. She has delivered many creative writing workshops and loves helping children write their own stories.
About the book:
Orange moon, blue baboon.
Blue baboon spies bassoon.
Blue baboon is eager to play the bassoon – but she’s out of tune! After the music is interrupted by a big monsoon, she flies off in a hot air balloon to a distant dune…but will she find a friend to play her tune with?
A rhyming read-aloud that makes for a perfect bedtime story, Blue Baboon Finds Her Tune follows a bassoon-playing baboon, who, at first, struggles to learn her instrument and fit in with the other animals. Blue Baboon’s story is a wonderful story about friendship, self-acceptance, and finding your own tune.
