12 November 2021
Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths is shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2022
06 September 2021
HOORAY! DANNY CHUNG SUMS IT UP is out tomorrow and I thought you could all get to know the fantastic illustrator of that book better! So here are some questions I asked her! 1. When you were growing up, did you know you wanted to be an illustrator? When I was a kid I wanted to be a comic artist! And then I wanted to be a zoologist, a marine biologist, and then a graphic designer. Even though I remember growing up with a handful of picture books and young fiction books, it never struck me that...
15 June 2021
Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths (U.K) is out in the world, or rather the U.K and some of the Commonwealth! The lead up to the book being launched was pretty stressful if I'm being honest. I took on more work than I should have earlier in the year and with the lockdown, only had from March onwards to concentrate on new writing. There were days when I was panicking about it, was it going to go okay? Would people like the book? How would it be launching my debut novel in a pandemic when you can't...
22 March 2021
Spring is here! I love seeing the daffodils and crocuses when I’m out and about. The lighter days have definitely brought a feeling of brightness. We’ve made it through the winter. Through the snow. Through a lot of tough months. It’s not over but there seems to be a movement towards optimism, rather than despair. My fellowship at Peter Pan Moat Brae has been running alongside the pandemic and we didn’t know if, or when I would be able to make it down to Dumfries. Sadly, that has only...
07 February 2021
Happy Lunar New Year! Year of the Ox Hooray! I was finally able to reveal the cover of my debut novel, Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths! It was such a lovely Friday. I spent most of the day replying to tweets and thanking everyone for the love. One of the BIG things for me, is that #DannyChungBook will be one of the first (perhaps the first) middle-grade book written by a British Chinese author to have a British Chinese child on the cover. What do you think of my book cover? Do you think it stands...
30 January 2021
Happy New Year! I hope you had a good Christmas, as good as we can expect during these very odd times. At the beginning of December our lovely hamster, Nora Happy Paws died. She had been slowing down considerably and I was already had the talk with my children, that she might not last too much longer. The following week I noticed her legs weren't working. And the next day she had gone. Even though she was only the size of my hand, she left a big paw print in our hearts. There has been much...
24 November 2020
Maisie talks about connecting with others and what she has been up to the past few weeks!
23 October 2020
The End of One Thing, Can be the Beginning of Another... I'm a firm believer in cycles...not bicycles, but the intrinsic up and down of nature and of our lives. This pandemic has been and will continue to be very difficult for humans on this planet. We have globally experienced something that has affected all of our lives. Some days, I regret reading the news, and other days I feel hopeful. This blog is about endings and also the hope that follows. The renewal of life and energy. I'm going to...
