Unfortunately it wasn’t for me.Hello Goodreaders! If you'd like news about me and my books, do check out my website where I blog now and then, or subscribe to my profile on Instagram. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Stripes Publishing, an imprint of Little Tiger Group, for the opportunity to read this book. I want to know why travelling between places makes the kids fall asleep, why Mike didn’t come across Bowow when he fell from the Chocolate Hills to London and how the kids didn’t get soot on them from travelling via a fireplace, amongst other things. If a kid reading this book asked me questions about it I’d probably have to make up the answers as it wasn’t especially clear to me why different things were happening.
Confused, I asked someone else who loves kid’s books to read it for me. This one just didn’t work for me, though. I thought I was the target audience for all children’s books, even though I haven’t been a kid since last century. What follows is a birthday party with a difference. Mike doesn’t know whose birthday it is and he certainly doesn’t know how to fall up, but he does know he needs to find his dog. After Bowow jumps into the hole, a note appears. Suddenly there’s an earthquake and a hole appears in the ground. On a day where it’s too hot to do much of anything, Mike and Bowow, his dog, are sitting on a hill. It won the Crystal Kite Prize for Europe and the National Book Award in the Philippines. Her debut Tall Story was listed for 13 prizes including the Waterstones, the Blue Peter and the Branford Boase. Shine a ghost story for teens was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize. Her picture book, Is It a Mermaid, lushly illustrated by Francesca Chessa, was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her novel Bone Talk was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Prize in 2019 – it is set in the moment when headhunting tribes in the Philippines come face to face with American invaders. She has written a comics biography Illustrated by Tom Knight of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who happens to be credited with “discovering” the Philippines. Her latest book is Mike Falls Up, illustrated by Carles Ballesteros, a portal fantasy for young readers beginning to explore beyond picture books. It took her years to learn that Filipino stories too, belong in the pages of books.
Growing up, she wondered why books only featured pink-skinned children who lived in worlds that didn’t resemble her tropical home in Manila. Happy goodreading!Ĭandy Gourlay was born in the Philippines, grew up under a dictatorship and met her husband during a revolution.
Hello Goodreaders! If you'd like news about me and my books, do check out my website where I blog now and then, or subscribe to my profile on Instagram.
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