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Love, Peace and Chocolate (Pocket Money Puffin)

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Love, Peace and Chocolate (Pocket Money Puffin)

Contributors:

By (Author) Cathy Cassidy

ISBN:

9780141330211

Publisher:

Penguin Random House Children's UK

Imprint:

Puffin

Publication Date:

27th May 2010

UK Publication Date:

6th May 2010

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

128

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 178mm, Spine 7mm

Weight:

86g

Description

Wishes...secrets... a tender-hearted story about friendship which is sure to ring true with all Cathy Cassidy fans.

Author Bio

I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too - pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I'd sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else . . . they didn't have photocopiers back then! I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine. Later, I married my boyfriend Liam, went back to college and trained to be an art teacher. I taught in a Coventry secondary school for a few years, which I loved, then moved to Scotland with Liam to start a family. My kids are 11 and 12 years old now, and the four of us live in a cottage in the Galloway hills with sheep and cows for neighbours. As well as writing books, I am the agony aunt on Shout magazine and a couple of days a week I teach art in a bunch of local primary schools, which is great fun and keeps me sane. (Well, maybe!) I've been veggie for 28 years, and was vegan for 8 of them - a chocolate-eating vegan, like Storm! I love old clothes, old toys, cars, books. We have three cats, a rabbit and a mad, hairy lurcher called Kelpie (the model for Leggit in my book Dizzy). I love my family, I love living in the middle of nowhere and I love my work. Of all my jobs, w

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