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🪲Posting about author-y book-y nature-y stuff.
🐞Agent: Kirsty McLachlan
❓Use my website for ALL enquiries: www.mgleonard.com
M. G. Leonard
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I'm excited that Hunt for the Golden Scarab is included in #Bookbuzz Primary this year!
Bookbuzz Primary is a fantastic initiative from @BookTrust to get Year 3-6s reading for pleasure & I'm pleased to be part of it.
Find out more & sign up here: bit.ly/4tqHvqw
May is nearly here! I will be doing three festivals. Come along and share your favourite Roman facts, general love of books and we’ll adventure into the past together. All event details and links to purchase tickets are available through the event calendar on my website. 🤗🕰️🔑🎶
PORTRAIT OF AN AUTHOR who has written 1 book, edited 1 book, published & promoted 2 books, in 14 weeks.
Clothes model’s own. Maya wears ugg boots, tracksuit bottoms, nightgown & fluffy teddy bear hoodie. Hair = nest holding brain in. 🤣
Photographer = amused long-suffering husband
Happy 100th Birthday to the ultimate beetle boy 🪲. It will not be a surprise to learn that David Attenborough is an inspiration to me & someone I deeply respect & admire. I’ll be surprised if he isn’t the same for you. We are lucky to have him as a part of our species. 💚
Happy Easter! It’s always nice to read a book whilst devouring chocolate. If you’re looking for an egg themed read, may I suggest CLUTCH? It’s an Easter holiday adventure. The Twitchers - bird-spotting detectives - try & stop an egg snatcher from pillaging a Spoonbill’s nest🪺
Hay Festival was a blast!
It’s WORLD OTTER DAY! 🦦
If you love otters then why not read this story about plucky little Portly, the adventurous young mustelid from The Wind in the Willows. The book is written by me & beautifully illustrated by @pollydunbar It’s available at your local bookshop.
Two each from my children (when they were younger). A bit more popular than my usual!
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
Diary of Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinnell
Adventures on Trains series by @mglnrd.bsky.social and Sam Sedgman
I am so excited to start reading Portly the Otter Untold Tales from The Wind in the Willows by @mglnrd.bsky.social. l loved the window art at the Suddenly on Sheaf Street bookshop in Daventry. It's a beautiful book. #amreading
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Today's review...'The Adventures of Portly the Otter @mglnrd.bsky.social illustrated by Polly Dunbar @farshorebooks.bsky.social As a Wind in the Willows fan, I absolutely loved this book- full of charm and character. #KidLitUK
www.throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/the-adventures-of-portly-the-otter
Young otter pup, Portly is frightened of the river when he first sees it and is worried that he is not otter-like enough. However, as he meets the other creatures who inhabit the river and its banks, ...
