Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston met in 2009, when Kiran was a student and Tom was artist-in-residence at Cambridge University. They have been a couple and collaborators ever since, but Julia and the Shark is their first novel. Kiran is the award-winning, bestselling author of stories including The Girl of Ink & Stars, The Way Past Winter, and The Deathless Girls, and Tom is making his illustrative debut having worked as an acclaimed artist for many years. They live in Oxford with their rescue cat Luna, in a house between a river and a forest.
Topic: English, Geography, PSHE & Citizenship
Related Book: Leila and the Blue Fox
Book Creator: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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