Judith Kerr based her Mog books on the peculiar behaviour of the nine cats she shared a home with during her long and impressive life. In her autobiography ‘Creatures’ she says that the best of these stories were based on real events. The sixth book in the series was inspired by Felix, son of Posy … Continue reading
If Anne Booth and Sam Usher’s Refuge is the most important new Christmas book of 2015 then Emily Sutton and Delia Huddy’s The Christmas Eve Tree is easily the most heartwarming. It’s the story of a little fir tree that finds itself unsold at Christmas time, and is rescued from the department store’s bin … Continue reading
Today is tygertale’s 1st birthday. By happy coincidence (and much more importantly) it is also Judith Kerr’s 90th birthday. To celebrate I went out and bought a copy of her autobiographical new book Creatures. ‘That book is simply gorgeous‘ the charming young man behind the till in Foyles rightly pointed out as I went to … Continue reading
