After that visit, my own fairy world began to grow wild in my brain. It's a magical and rather eerie place where fairies are said to dance and revel. You're well known for making gorgeous picture books like Mammoth and Dogs Don't Do Ballet - so why did you decide to write a novel for children?īasically I had an idea for a story that would never fit into a picture book! The idea began to brew around seven years ago after I visited the Rollright Stones - a stone circle not far from where I live. We asked Anna Kemp to tell us more about it.ġ. Into Goblyn Wood, written by Anna Kemp and illustrated by David Wyatt, is an incredible fantasy adventure that takes readers into the richly imagined world of Goblyn Wood, where something powerful and sinister is stealing magic from the world. When Hazel escapes from the orphanage and enters Goblyn Wood, she discovers both magic and darkness and begins to uncover the truth about who she really is.

Into Goblyn Wood (Simon & Schuster Children's Books) He lives on Dartmoor where the ancient landscape provides much inspiration for his particular brand of mythic art. Since then he has worked with many fantasy authors, including Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett and Kieran Larwood. Illustrator David Wyatt's first professional work appeared in British comic 2000Ad at age 17, illustrating a strip for Neil Gaiman.

She also writes picture books and her work has been adapted for television (Bookaboo, CBeebies), puppetry (Little Angel), dance (Ballet Black) and theatre (New Writing North, Little Blue Monster). Into Goblyn Wood is a richly imagined world of fairies with a dark and sinister threat, and is Anna Kemp's first novel for children.

Dogs Don't Do Ballet by Anna Kemp