How to do cat's cradle  -- with photographs of each move

How to do cat's cradle— as the characters do it in Blow Out the Moon — with photographs of and instructions for each move

The launch party in the hut for Is That the Bus? (latest book). The children drank sparkling lemonade and ate treacle pudding. The grownups and I drank champagne and I read the book while the children made the sound effects.


The child hanging back from the treacle pudding is a visiting cousin who had just arrived.

See a video of me reading the book and the children making the sounds from it here :https://youtu.be/g_c3ESLPUJw


Old map of the Hebrides from Sometimes It Takes an Island (adult novel now being submitted to agents).