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Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning, bestselling novelist. Her debut story for children The Girl of Ink & Stars won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year. Her work has been short- and long-listed for numerous major prizes including the Costa Award and the CILIP Carnegie Award, and her novel Julia and the Shark, illustrated by Tom de Freston, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and named Waterstones Children’s Gift of the Year. She’s a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives in Oxford with her husband and cats, in a house between a river and a forest.
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Topic: English, Geography, PSHE & Citizenship
Related Book: Leila and the Blue Fox
Book Creator: Tom de Freston
A breathtaking story about one small fox’s journey across the Arctic … and one girl’s journey to find the mother she thought she’d lost.
This resource pack contains cross-curricular activites and discussion questions for use in the classroom or library reading group.
Themes: Family relationships | Migration | Animals in the wild | Home | Climate change | Memories
Topic: Art, Climate change, Empathy, English, Growing up, Science
Related Book: Julia and the Shark
Book Creator: Tom de Freston
A beautiful, lyrical story about a mother, a daughter, and love, from bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave with illustrations by Tom de Freston. Watch the author and illustrator video here, and download the accomanying certificates here.
Themes: Mental Health | Science | Environment | Family Relationships
Topic: Art, Climate change, Empathy, English, Growing up, Science
Related Book: Julia and the Shark
Book Creator: Tom de Freston
A beautiful, lyrical story about a mother, a daughter, and love, from bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave with illustrations by Tom de Freston.
Themes: Mental Health | Science | Environment | Family Relationships
Topic: English
Related Book: Geomancer: In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen
Inspire children to practise creative writing skills with one of the best storytellers writing today: Kiran Millwood Hargrave. The activities included are for use alongside Kiran’s dazzling Geomancer series. They are suitable for literacy or library sessions.
Themes: World-building inspired by Nature | The Magic of Trees | Objects from the Natural World | Creating Nature-Conscious Characters
Topic: English, PSHE & Citizenship
Related Book: Geomancer: In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen
Discussion questions for Geomancer the fantasy trilogy from bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave. These questions are ideal for use in class and book group sessions with children in years 5 and 6.
Themes: The Natural World | Adventure | Fantasy | Earth Magic
