Prize-winning writer Ali Sparkes, author of the celebrated Shapeshifter series, as well as other popular children’s and young people’s books including Frozen in Time, Wishful Thinking and Destination Earth, is going on a tour of Hampshire Libraries.
The Southampton born and based writer, who has written more than 50 children’s books as well as works for adults, will be visiting four libraries across Hampshire this summer.
She will be bringing her latest children’s novel, My Sister Is A Dog, to Hythe and Chandler’s Ford on August 17 and Andover and Farnborough on August 18.Ali specialises in action-packed adventures with a supernatural twist, stories set in the here and now, but with something bizarre happening.
Her books are frequently described as ‘engrossing’ ‘funny’ and ‘exciting’.
My Sister is a Dog, explores ideas around reincarnation. ‘Although it’s a comedy, it is unavoidably emotional and poignant,’ Ali told In Common. ‘The doggie hero is my own Labradoodle, Willow, and the story was inspired by our dog walking around Woolston. The other dogs in the story are all based on the real dogs and their owners who are our mates at their local park’.
Formerly a journalist with the Southern Daily Echo and Radio Solent, Ali wrote her first children’s book in 2006. That debut book The Shapeshifter – Finding the Fox, was the first in a series of six Shapeshifter stories about Dax Jones and his friends at a government run-school for Children of Limitless Ability (COLA).
In 2010 she won the Blue Peter prizes for ‘Best Book’ and ‘Book I Couldn’t Put Down’ with Frozen in Time.
For tickets and more information, click the links below:
Chandler’s Ford: https://shop.hants.gov.uk/…/ali-sparkes-childrens…
Farnborough: https://shop.hants.gov.uk/…/ali-sparkes-childrens…
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