Children's fiction Archives ~ Kathryn Rose Newey

June 3, 2020August 2, 2023
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New: Interactive, Code-Cracking Novel for Middle-Graders Released

Children's fiction

Books are wonderful. They allow you to lose yourself in another world. What if there was a book which not only transported you to another part of the universe, but in which you must crack a code along the way? The Space Hamster and the […]

May 25, 2020April 21, 2023
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May 25th is Towel Day!

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Towel Day? Towel Day is a fun day celebrated annually on May 25th, when fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams go around all day with a towel. Why? Because a towel is listed as one of the essential and most […]

March 27, 2020August 7, 2023
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Science Fiction ebook for Kids – Now Free on Kindle!

Children's fiction

While everyone’s doing home-schooling during lockdown, I thought it might be a nice gesture to offer you my Science Fiction eBook, Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves, for free, via Kindle Unlimited. Like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids! Readers will love the “myriad […]

February 2, 2020August 5, 2023
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Get Symmetrical with Palindrome Day!

Children's fiction

February 2nd, 2020 is a palindrome. A palindrome is “a word, phrase or number which is read the same forwards as backwards.” Words like ‘radar’ or ‘madam’ are palindromes. As are numbers like 4224 or 10001. Back to today’s date: 02-02-2020. Beautifully symmetrical! In fact, […]

December 2, 2019August 7, 2023
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New Middle Grade Science Fiction – Coming Soon to a Galaxy Near You!

Children's fiction

The Space Hamster and the Universal Code A Galaxy-Spanning Adventure with Ilnoblet Elmer… Get ready for a wonderfully weird trip to places in the universe you didn’t know existed! If Douglas Adams had written The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids, it might go […]

July 4, 2018August 7, 2023
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‘Animals in the Forest’ Review: Thought-Provoking and an Absolute Pleasure

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My Nature Conservation novel aimed at middle grade children, teens and young adults, ‘Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came‘, was recently reviewed by Education Otherwise, a major home education organisation in the UK. Kerri, the EO book reviewer, wrote: “‘Animals in the Forest’ is an absolute […]

May 26, 2018March 26, 2023
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New Animal Rights Story for Teens to be Published Soon

Animal rights

UPDATE June 2018: ‘The Zoo Animals’ Faraway Dream‘ has been published! Find out more here. If you or your kids are into reading about the natural environment, green issues, ecology, animals or saving the planet, then my next book, ‘The Zoo Animals’ Faraway Dream‘ is […]

April 23, 2018August 5, 2023
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Ilnoblet Elmer is Officially Awarded ‘4 out of 4 Stars’!

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OnlineBookClub.org has published their official review of ‘Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves‘, rating it 4 out of 4 stars: “Children’s literature that makes learning fun is always a joy to read. Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves by Kathryn Rose Newey is one such […]

April 3, 2018March 26, 2023
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Children’s Writing Workshops at Waterstones Bookstores

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UPDATE May 2018: I’m offering more Kids’ Writing Workshops at Waterstones Hatfield, Waterstones Welwyn Garden City, and Harpenden Books during May Half-Term (28th-31st May 2018). Contact the stores to book your place! UPDATE April 2018! The 2pm-3pm workshop on Monday 9 April 2018 is now fully […]

January 6, 2018March 26, 2023
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Radio Interview: Nature Conservation Novel ‘Animals in the Forest’

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Nick Coffer interviewed me live on BBC Three Counties Radio about my nature conservation fiction / environmental fiction book ‘Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came‘ early in January 2018. Listen to the podcast of the interview on YouTube, or play it here: What exactly […]