On Sunday, Philip Reeve and I whizzed from Bath Kids Lit Fest to Coventry, and then to Hinkley to give a very short presentation at the Booksellers Association Conference. (Well, I saw 'whizzed'; it took three trains, a replacement bus service and a taxi to get there.) But we're glad we did! It was a chance to meet lots of booksellers, several of ( Read more... )

Thank you, Philip Reeve, for writing this blog post about the party at The Bookery in Crediton, celebrating both the start of Indie Bookshop Week AND their tenth anniversary as a shop, with some extra lovely shop and event space! Adventuremice, and a first screening of Gwenevere... read his blog here!


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The next stop on our Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery tour was Bristol, where my co-author Philip Reeve and I headed to lovely Max Minerva's bookshop! It had expanded (and doubled!) since our last visit and the new premises in Henleaze had a lovely children's area. We got busy painting the window:


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On Sunday, my Adventuremice co-author Philip Reeve and I were to be found in Bath, decorating the windows of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights.


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The past week was a bit of a blur with all the activity, and I didn't get many chances to take photos. So I'll post this as a series of tweets intead! On Tuesday, my co-author Philip Reeve and I went to the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border to celebrate the winning of a short story competition by a pupil, Gracie Curtis, from Granby Junior School in ( Read more... )

Today my co-author Philip Reeve and I went on an Adventuremice Dartmoor Mini Tour, and taught people how to draw our mini hero, Pedro! (He's the star of our new book, Adventuremice: Otter Chaos.)


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The Southwest Tour launch of our book Adventuremice: Otter Chaos came to an end with our last two events at Waterstones Taunton (in Somerset) and Waterstones Truro (in Cornwall). But I saw a poster in Truro for a place called 'Mousehole' and asked my co-author Philip Reeve if it was a real place... and it is!


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Today, for the next leg of our Adventuremice Southwest Tour, my co-author Philip Reeve and I met up with India and Dan from the Exeter branch of Waterstones bookshop for two school visits and an in-shop signing. Besides hauling some heavy boxes of books around, and drawing with us, they also did some otter-wrangling throughout the day (thanks, ( Read more... )

The next leg of our Reeve & McIntyre Adventuremice Southwest Tour took us to The Bookery in Crediton, a bookshop where Philip and I are both Patrons. Cathie Holden met us there and whizzed us off to Yeoford Community Primary School to open their brand-new library! It's a very small school - sixty-something children - but a group of parents got ( Read more... )

For the next part of our Adventuremice Southwest Tour, my co-author Philip Reeve and I drove down to Kingsbridge in South Devon (near Totnes), where we'd been commissioned to paint an Adventuremice-themed window for The Harbour Bookshop. (Here's a link if you're interested in the bookshop's connection to Christopher Robin Milne, of Winnie-the-Pooh ( Read more... )