18/06/2026
✨ Throwback Thursday ✨
A very little us at the Edinburgh Book Festival somewhere around 2014 📚💛
Looking back now, it feels really special knowing how much these moments shaped us.
Meeting Liz Pichon was HUGE for me! I absolutely loved the Tom Gates books (and honestly still do 😄). As a dyslexic child, they felt fun, inviting, and accessible in a way a lot of books didn’t. They made reading feel exciting instead of intimidating, and I think that stayed with me more than I realised at the time 💛
We also met David Roberts, whose illustrations brought so many stories to life for us growing up ✨
And over the years we’ve also been lucky enough to meet Jacqueline Wilson, my all-time favourite author, and genuinely one of the people who inspired me to write 💛 (we’re still hunting for the photo 👀)
As well as Julia Donaldson, whose stories became such a huge part of childhood for so many families, including ours and her stories continue to influence our storytelling, Room on the broom and superworm are two of our favourite books to read with my ASN children at work.
It’s strange sometimes, looking back at the books and authors that quietly shaped who you become.
And now, years later, books are still at the centre of so much of what we do 💛📚
