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Piers Torday

December 2022

  • Save our burrows … Corey Montague-Sholay, Melody Brown, Paula James, Tom Chapman, Rosie Wyatt and Darrell Brockis.

    The Wind in the Wilton’s review – Mr Toad and pals take on weaselly property developers

    Piers Torday’s update of the children’s classic brings Kenneth Grahame’s animals to modern-day London

December 2021

  • A special story … Gilbert Taylor, Stacey Read, Ruth Calkin and Georgia-Mae Myers in There May Be a Castle.

    There May Be a Castle review – a dark and wild adventure

    This gripping adaptation of Piers Torday’s book will have your children excited, a little scared and bursting with big questions

November 2021

  • Piers Torday walking in Cumbria

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I was told to kill the most magnificent creature I had ever seen

    My dad loved hunting and I wanted to please him. But nothing prepared me for the beauty of the stag I was expected to shoot

October 2021

  • Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    Animals have dwindled in novels since 1835. Is fiction undergoing its own extinction event?

    Piers Torday
    A new study argues that a disconnect with nature has led to fewer creatures appearing in fiction. But is that really the case?

December 2018

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    A new start
    A new start: Piers Torday on how Judy Garland helped him to come out

    While his friends at school were listening to Pink Floyd, the author was struggling to find his place. That was, until he discovered Meet Me in St Louis

September 2018

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    The Lost Magician by Piers Torday review – in Narnia’s shadows

    An intriguing homage to CS Lewis’s mythical world – but are the parallels too close?

December 2017

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    My unforgettable winter
    Piers Torday: 'We mounted our loyal tauntauns and waded out across the drifts’

    The Empire Strikes Back had just been released and the children’s author, aged 10, was invited to a friend’s house to watch it. But on the day of the screening, disaster struck – he had woken up on the ice planet Hoth …

October 2016

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    There May Be a Castle by Piers Torday review – imagination and danger

    It’s a snowy Christmas Eve … but the journey of the Mallory family to Granny and Gramps takes a sinister turn

January 2016

  • rows of books

    Children's books
    Authors share their reading resolutions for 2016 – now share yours!

    From ‘bookending’ every day, to full digital detox to reading more books in translation, authors including Louise O’Neill, Meg Rosoff, Katherine Rundell, Philip Reeve, Francesca Simon and Juno Dawson (nee James) reveal reading-related resolutions

December 2015

  • David Almond, winner of the Guardian children’s fiction prize 2015, left, with last year’s winner, Piers Torday.

    A Song for Ella Grey is a children’s book – and a great one

    Piers Torday
    Children’s author Lynne Reid Banks says David Almond’s novel, which won the Guardian children’s fiction prize, is ‘not a book for children’ – but young readers must come to their own conclusions

October 2015

  • Song for Ella Grey by David Almond, The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls and Five Children on the Western Frontby Kate Saunders Guardian Children's Fiction Prize books

    Books blog
    Guardian children’s fiction prize 2015 shortlist – a judge’s perspective

    Myths, magic and Treasure Island-style mystery - classic themes are brought to vivid new life in this year’s contenders
  • Alexia

    Children's books
    Why I'm fighting to get teenagers into libraries

    Like most authors Alexia Casale is fiercely passionate about the value of libraries and the transformative power of books – so she developed YA Shot, a library-based teen lit festival and a year-long legacy programme of author visits – and wants to roll it out nationally
  • Children playing in a forest

    Gardening blog
    Books can reconnect children with nature

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    Getting children interested in the natural world is about storytelling - and that’s where books come in, argues author Piers Torday

September 2015

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    The Wild Beyond by Piers Torday review – the triumphant finale to an anarchic trilogy

    An extraordinary cast of characters fights an evil monopoly that controls every aspect of their lives

August 2015

  • An old movie publicity still from 1929

    Children's books
    Banned, burned, or simply life changing: what are the best dangerous books?

    Authors including Patrick Ness, Melvin Burgess, Tanya Landman, Louise O’Neill, Bali Rai, Candy Gourlay, James Dawson and Leigh Bardugo share the books they probably weren’t meant to read that either rocked their world or rocked the world

July 2015

  • Five Children and It

    Children's books
    What are the best retellings and sequels of classic books for kids?

  • reading in the summer

    Children's books
    What are you reading this summer? Authors and teens share their reading list

May 2015

  • Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nelisse hug in a scene from The Book Thief

    Children's books
    What are the best children's books on the second world war?

    To mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day, children’s authors including Shirley Hughes, Michael Morpurgo, SF Said, Piers Torday and Katherine Rundell, together with children’s books site members, share their favourite books set in or about the second world war

April 2015

  • Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games

    Children's books
    Teen opinion: how dystopian fiction calls me to the wild side

  • Piers Torday

    Children's books
    Why writing stories about climate change isn’t fantasy or sci-fi

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