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La pequetecaLa pequeteca - FESTILIJ3C - 01/02/26Los próximos 5, 6, 7 y 8 de febrero la ciudad madrileña de Tres Cantos celebra su novena edición del FESTILIJ3C, un certamen de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil que galardona a autores de este género con los ya conocidos premios Torre del Agua en distintas categorías, desde el álbum ilustrado hasta el cómic. Nombres como Margarita del Mazo, Diego Arboleda , Eva Clemente , Fer Alcalá...se unen a internacionales como Abi Elphinstone , Steve Smallman o Elena Triolo....Pero a la espera de conocer a los agraciados, hablamos con el homenajeado por toda su trayectoria: Ricardo Gómez, y...
2026-02-0106 min
Owl Be Reading Book ReviewsOwl Be Reading Book Review: Darkwhispers - A brightstorm adventureLoved the episode? Don’t forget to follow the podcast so you never miss a new book recommendation!Owl Be Reading is where curious kids, awesome parents, and book lovers unite. From bold adventures to brain-teasing challenges, this is more than just story time. It’s a club!📌 Useful Links:🌐 Visit our website:👉 https://www.owlbereading.com 📝 Read the full review:👉 https://www.owlbereading.com/library-...🛒 Buy the book on Amazon:👉 https://amzn.to/44qbeFY📬 Join the comm...
2025-07-0701 min
HarperCollins PublishersThe Sea Queen, By Natasha Hastings, Read by Imogen WildeA bewitching and powerful tale of sparkling magic, spellbinding mystery and a friendship worth risking everything for, perfect for fans of Tamzin Merchant, Abi Elphinstone and Anna James.
Thomasina and Anne are looking for adventure when their friend, Henry, disappears – snatched by a mysterious creature, and dragged into the depths of the River Thames.
Determined to save him, the girls venture into the deep, and discover the enchanting Free Waters: a vast, glittering underwater city, home to mermaids and sirens. But the Free Waters are threatened by an evil Sea Queen. It is she who has Henry – and the girls must...
2024-12-1304 min
School Reading ListEpisode 19 - Choosing children's books: how do adults pick new children's books?School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom TolkienSeason 1: Episode 19For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-19/Part 1Book postSerena and the Little Blue Dog by Rosemary ClunieMoving Up: How to Ace Secondary School by Christian FoleyChamp by Payam Ebrahimi and Reza DalvandPink Trucks by Sam ClarkeHeavy Metal Badger by Duncan BeedieIt Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop) by Jennifer GardyPodkin and the Singing Spear by Kieran LarwoodNature's Fascinating Friendships...
2024-05-0138 min
Front RowDiversity at the Oscars and Baftas; plays and the cost of living; children's books; Phyllida BarlowThe conclusion of the Oscars marks the end of the film awards season, so Front Row took the opportunity to look at the progress made on representation in film and at awards. Tom is joined by the film critic Amon Warmann, Katherine Pieper of LA's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which looks at equalities at the Oscars, and Marcus Ryder of the Lenny Henry Centre For Media Diversity.Plus, with a host of new productions exploring the cost of living crisis, we look at how playwrights are tackling this. Writer Emily White talks about her new play, Joseph K...
2023-03-1442 min
Dyslexia Explored#130 Determination and Dyslexia with Author Abi ElphinstoneHave you ever experienced rejection? It's not a pleasant feeling, but our guest for today has persevered despite being rejected by publishers 95 times. Join us this week as we discuss determination and dyslexia with Abi Elphinstone, the author of The Dream Snatcher Series and The Unmapped Chronicles.Abi grew up in Scotland, spending her weekends building dens in the woods, hiding in treehouses, and exploring the highlands. Despite being labeled as "unteachable" and "prone to spasmodic outbursts of silliness" by her headteacher, she pushed through school and earned an English degree at Bristol University. After teaching English...
2023-02-231h 12
In the Reading CornerAbi Elphinstone - Saving NeverlandAbi Elphinstone is a writer of children's fantasy stories, including The Dream Snatcher, Sky Song and Rumblestar. She has also written picturebooks, The Snow Dragon and the Frost Goblin. Many of Abi's stories are set in magical cold places, inspired by growing up in the North of Scotland. This is true of her latest book, Saving Neverland, which reimagines J M Barrie's Peter Pan for the 21st century.Read our review of Saving Neverland on the Just Imagine website Purchase Saving Neverland from our bookselling partner Best Books for SchoolsNumber 14 Darlington Road...
2023-02-0729 minIn the Reading CornerAbi Elphinstone - Saving NeverlandAbi Elphinstone is a writer of children's fantasy stories, including The Dream Snatcher, Sky Song and Rumblestar. She has also written picturebooks, The Snow Dragon and the Frost Goblin. Many of Abi's stories are set in magical cold places, inspired by growing up in the North of Scotland. This is true of her latest book, Saving Neverland, which reimagines J M Barrie's Peter Pan for the 21st century.Read our review of Saving Neverland on the Just Imagine website Purchase Saving Neverland from our bookselling partner Best Books for SchoolsNumber 14 Darlington Road...
2023-02-0729 min
Mixed Up Files of Ammu and ZoeThe Mixed Up Files of WinterHappy Winter!
This is our bonus seasonal episode with our Top Ten Books for Winter.
1. White Boots, by Noel Streatfeild
2. Letters to Father Christmas, by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. A Castle in the Clouds, by Kerstin Gier
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
5. Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu
6. A Christmas Carol (The little match girl)
7. Sky Song, Abi Elphinstone
8. Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
9. The Greenglass House,by Kate Milford
10. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Our next book is the Gilded Girl. It's coming out soon, so don't forget to read it! ;) Voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.c...
2023-01-2247 min
Fun Kids Book QuestAbi Elphinstone gives Peter Pan a new story in Saving Neverland!Happy 2023! This week on the first Book Worms episode of the year, Bex chats to Abi Elphinstone on her new book Saving Neverland! Find out how Abi felt reading the original Peter Pan, challenges writing his character, and what themes arise in this new tale... Bex talks us through her favourite books, including Blanksy the Street Cat by Gavin Puckett and her book of the month, Like A Curse by Elle McNicoll. Listen to hear why Bex adores these books! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for p...
2023-01-1115 minFun Kids Book QuestMatthew Sayed and Kathy Weeks advise us on how to argue!On this week's episode of Book Worms, Bex tackles the topics of arguments and how best to have them in an interview with Matthew Sayed and Kathy Weeks! Bex and the duo discuss the inspirations behind Matthew's book What Do YOU Think?, where we delve into Matthew and Kathy's ideas on opinions and how to wield them. Brilliant author Abi Elphinstone reads an excerpt from her new book, Saving Neverland, and takes us through the spellbinding themes and characters in a summary of the novel! This week is one to tune in to! Join Fun Ki...
2022-11-3017 min
Conversations with Annalisa BarbieriAdoption with psychotherapist and adoption specialist Alison RoyI get a lot of problems about adoption, usually, but not always, from the adopters who are struggling but are mired in shame that they cannot cope. Once someone has been through the process of adoption it can be very hard for them to admit they are finding it tough. But in this podcast we also hear from an adoptee, because that's the other side that I hear from (and often a voice which is missing when adoption is discussed). When adoptees write to me, they often talk of constantly looking for something, as if something is missing, or...
2022-06-131h 02
Write-Off with Francesca SteeleAbi ElphinstoneI loved talking to Abi Elphinstone, a bestselling children’s author who writes about dreamsnatchers and sky gods and wildcats. She has been called a worthy successor to C.S. Lewis by The Times, and talks regularly at schools about her writing process, with great enthusiasm even when the kids mistake her for JK Rowling. I was especially grateful to Abi for fitting me in when she was practically moments from giving birth, and I think that’s testament to how she’s always keen to chat about her work whenever she can. We actually haven’t had an...
2022-03-3138 min
Audio Book Club PodcastPart 1: Sky Song by Abi ElphinstoneThis wonderfully inventive book is set in the snowy kingdom of Erkenwald, ruled by an evil Ice Queen who imprisons her enemies in Winterfang Palace. Can Eska, a girls ho breaks free from a cursed music box, find the magical song with the power to break the Ice Queen’s grip? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-03-043h 27
Audio Book Club PodcastPart 2: Sky Song by Abi ElphinstoneThis wonderfully inventive book is set in the snowy kingdom of Erkenwald, ruled by an evil Ice Queen who imprisons her enemies in Winterfang Palace. Can Eska, a girls ho breaks free from a cursed music box, find the magical song with the power to break the Ice Queen’s grip? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-03-043h 40
Escape To A Immersive Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Everdark by Abi ElphinstonePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/202091to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Everdark
Author: Abi Elphinstone
Narrator: Nicky Diss
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 01-07-21
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Apes & Monkeys
Publisher's Summary:
It is midnight in Crackledawn—a midnight full of magic. Sea dragons stir in the depths of the ocean, silver whales surface beneath the moon and sand goblins line the shores. Everyone is waiting for the phoenix, the guardian of the kingdom’s magic, to rise up from the forests of Everdark. But there is no sign of the phoenix tonight. Something else...
2021-01-073h 02
Embark On Into A Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook During Your Workout.The Bickery Twins and the Phoenix Tear by Abi ElphinstonePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/209786to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Bickery Twins and the Phoenix Tear
Series: Unmapped Chronicles, Book 2
Author: Abi Elphinstone
Narrator: Nicky Diss
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Release date: 11-17-20
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 5 ratings
Genres: Dragons & Mythical Creatures
Publisher's Summary:
Twins Fox and Fibber are riding on a train through Germany when it plunges into a dark tunnel - and emerges in Jungledrop, one of the Unmapped Kingdoms in charge of controlling the weather in their world. The land is beautiful but perilous, with grizzlebears and gobblequick trees. Together, they must...
2020-11-177h 16
Anderton Tiger RadioRadio Blogging Thursday 11th June 2020First broadcast at 9.30am on Thursday 11th June 2020.
This was our fifty-fifth radio show, we ran a live blogging activity alongside our broadcast with our hosts Pie Corbett, Deputy Mitchell, Ian Rockey and Russell Prue. This is about Creative Writing, Writing for a Purpose and engaging young folks in Storytelling and Story-writing.
This show was hosted by Ian Rockey.
This project was setup to assist colleagues in their classrooms during the Coronavirus School Closures and to help those home educating.
Follow us on Twitter @RadioBlogging Twitter.com/RadioBlogging We're also on Facebook www.Facebook.com/RadioBlogging Please visit our page...
2020-06-1200 min
In the Reading CornerAbi Elphinstone - RumblestarIn this interview, Abi Elphinstone plays the Name Game with Nikki Gamble and tell us all about her latest novel, Rumblestar.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. and by purchasing books from our online bookshop, Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates: follow us on X @imaginecentre Bluesky https...
2019-06-2134 minIn the Reading CornerAbi Elphinstone - RumblestarIn this interview, Abi Elphinstone plays the Name Game with Nikki Gamble and tell us all about her latest novel, Rumblestar.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. and by purchasing books from our online bookshop, Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates: follow us on X @imaginecentre Bluesky https...
2019-06-2134 min
Writer's RoutineAbi Elphinstone, author of 'Rumblestar' - Children's author talks finding the right audience, believable characters and thorough research.Abi Elphinstone has just started the brand new kids' series 'The Unmapped Chronicles'. The first of which, 'Rumblestar', sees Casper Tock stumbling across a hidden world which magically controls the weather. The idea came from a desire to get kids outside, away from screens and into nature - we talk about having that grand concept, and making it relatable to kids in a few hundred pages.You can hear why it took her a bunch of rejections to finally realise what was wrong about her writing, also how she works writing days around travelling and being...
2019-06-1445 min
Everything Under The Sun16. Where Do Ideas Come From? A World Book Day special with writer Abi Elphinstone & writer and illustrator Rob Biddulph.It’s World Book Day! To celebrate, this week we've got three answers to a great question, from Bonnie, which is...‘Where do Ideas Come From?’ Our first answer is from children’s book writer Abi Elphinstone. Abi is a 2019 World Book Day author and you can get her new book, Everdark on World Book Day with your WBD tokens! She talks about how adventures, daydreaming and looking at the sky out of her writing shed inspired her big ideas and tells us about how she came up with the stories and character...
2019-03-0715 min
Library Girl and Book BoyChristmas Crackers - Part 1 (with Tracey Corderoy)In this Christmas episode, I interview author Tracey Corderoy about her new winter titles: ‘The Boy and the Bear,’ ‘The Christmas Extravaganza Hotel,’ and ‘It’s Christmas!’ I recommend some of my top Christmas book gifts for primary school-aged children (think Alex .T. Smith and Abi Elphinstone for the big ones, Madeleine Cook and Nicholas Allen for the littlies), and help out a listener looking for dinosaur book recommendations for a three-year-old - you can’t go wrong with Sarah McIntyre, Penny Dale and Emma Yarlett! #Christmas #gifts #dinosaurs
2018-11-2828 min
The Word MonkeysEpisode 38 - Abi ElphinstoneAbi has written four books, the Dreamsnatcher, the Shadow Keeper, the Night Spinner and Sky Song. She chatted with Matt about the perils of social media, how rejection can sometimes be a good thing, and writing inclusive characters.This podcast comes with free baby cries and added Highlander. YUM!You can follow Abi on Twitter @moontrugMatt is @mattbrownauthor
2018-05-1624 min
The Word MonkeysEpisode 38 - Abi ElphinstoneAbi has written four books, the Dreamsnatcher, the Shadow Keeper, the Night Spinner and Sky Song. She chatted with Matt about the perils of social media, how rejection can sometimes be a good thing, and writing inclusive characters.This podcast comes with free baby cries and added Highlander. YUM!You can follow Abi on Twitter @moontrugMatt is @mattbrownauthor
2018-05-1624 minThe Word MonkeysEpisode 38 - Abi ElphinstoneAbi has written four books, the Dreamsnatcher, the Shadow Keeper, the Night Spinner and Sky Song. She chatted with Matt about the perils of social media, how rejection can sometimes be a good thing, and writing inclusive characters.This podcast comes with free baby cries and added Highlander. YUM!You can follow Abi on Twitter @moontrugMatt is @mattbrownauthor
2018-05-1624 min
In the Reading CornerAbi Elphinstone - Sky SongIn this interview, Abi Elphinstone talks to Nikki Gamble about her novel Sky Song.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. and by purchasing books from our online bookshop, Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates: follow us on X @imaginecentre Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/justimaginecentre.bsky.social Instagram...
2018-04-1139 minIn the Reading CornerAbi Elphinstone - Sky SongIn this interview, Abi Elphinstone talks to Nikki Gamble about her novel Sky Song.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. and by purchasing books from our online bookshop, Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates: follow us on X @imaginecentre Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/justimaginecentre.bsky.social Instagram...
2018-04-1139 min
Down The Rabbit Hole24 November 2015 | Episode 17: Abi Elphinstone and Jonathan StroudAuthors Abi Elphinstone and Jonathan Stroud join the gang to discuss three new children’s books. Plus an interview with Edward Carey, author of the Iremonger trilogy, and more from the children of Netley Primary School.
2015-11-2430 min
Passion Pods#71 Abi ElphinstoneRomany Gypsies, witch doctors, tree ghouls, sea caves; Abi Elphinstone‘s children’s triology is pure imagination fertilizer. Kicking off with The Dream Snatcher and followed next year by The Shadow Keeper, the magical adventures in her...
2015-11-2301 min
Passion Pods#71 Abi ElphinstoneRomany Gypsies, witch doctors, tree ghouls, sea caves; Abi Elphinstone‘s children’s triology is pure imagination fertilizer. Kicking off with The Dream Snatcher and followed next year by The Shadow Keeper, the magical adventures in her...
2015-11-2300 min