Matt Haig
As well as being a number one bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults.
Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen. He has won the Nottingham Children’s Book Award and been commended by the Sheffield Children’s Book Award. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have had on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.
Matt Haig was interviewed in the Observer about his new book Notes on a Nervous Planet.
“Platforms like Twitter and Instagram try to get us as emotionally and psychologically invested in them as possible. And sometimes, if you just go on Twitter and passively scroll down your feed, it depends who you follow of course, it just seems like a fireball of anger. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, you can find something within five minutes to be really, really cross or anxious about. And there’s a psychological fall-out from all that.”
Observer
“A Note on Wanting”: enjoy this early preview of Matt Haig’s Notes on a Nervous Planet, the follow-up to number one bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive. From the audiobook, read by the author.
“You might think you know about Father Christmas. And I'm sure you do know some things. You probably know about the Toy Workshop and the reindeer. But the thing you probably don't know about is me...”
A Boy Called Christmas teaching resource
You can get free A Boy Called Christmas (as well as A Mouse Called Miika) teaching resources for children age 7+! These festive activities have been created to prompt discussions around the true spirit of Christmas in Matt Haig’s text, looking at the true story of Father Christmas – and encouraging students to develop their reading comprehension, inference, creative writing and film-making skills!
You can get these free Christmas-themed teaching resources for children aged 7–9! Make an amazing Christmas display for your classroom, or learn about Queen Victoria and more.
You can get these free Christmas-themed teaching resources for children aged 7–9! Make an amazing Christmas display for your classroom, or learn about Queen Victoria and more.
