Just Sayin'The long awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books. It is an account of her journey, from a childhood surrounded by words, to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to sending out her first project, to the children's laureateship.

Rutherford and Fry show us how to bypass our monkey-brains

and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it

linking together half the world through the international spice trade

string and leather - is hurled at you

desperate to end his career as a spy during the Cold War

As in 'The Lost Words'

This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest

stoical moustaches and aerial heroics

who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in occupied France during the Second World War

Good looking

But life had other plans

with their sights set on careers in journalism and the media - but that wasn't to be