Dom Conlon in The Guardian's 'Books of the Month' & Savita Kalhan shortlisted for Bristol Teen Book Award 2020
The Guardian’s Books of the Month selects ‘This Rock, That Rock’
We’re thrilled that Dom Conlon’s new collection of poems, This Rock, That Rock, has just been selected by Imogen Russell Williams as one The Guardian’s Children’s Books of the Month.
The book commemorates 50 years since the Appollo 11 landing and celebrates our Moon in a multitude of ways.
“It’s playful and thought-provoking,” writes Imogen, “with atmospheric illustrations by Viviane Schwarz.”
In it you’ll find a spaceload of poetry forms… short poems and long ones, silly poems and serious ones. There are haiku and sonnets, acrostics and shapes, kennings and metaphors and slang, plus a whole variety of rhymes and rhythms.
To discover more, blast off to This Rock, That Rock. On the way, stop off to say hi to author Dom and illustrator Viviane.
Bristol Teen Book Award 2020 shortlists ‘That Asian Kid’
Meanwhile, Savita Kalhan’s novel for young adults, That Asian Kid, has just been shortlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award 2020.
The Award shortlist, which celebrates diversity, isn’t the book’s first. That Asian Kid has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, selected as one of BookTrust’s Best Children’s Books of 2019, and shortlisted and longlisted in several other book awards.
Read more about That Asian Kid, and find out all about author Savita Kalhan.
Huge congratulations from the Troika team to Dom, Viviane and Savita!
Viviane Schwarz, from ‘This Rock, That Rock’