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Stories and Ideas
Hello! My name is Sally Nicholls and I’m the author of lots of different books. I write books about everything – I’ve written a realistic book about a boy with leukaemia, Ways to Live Forever, a...
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Girls In Books I Loved
Who are your favourite girls in books? When I was a child, my favourite heroines were Pippi Longstocking and Nancy Blackett. Pippi Longstocking lived a wonderful life. She had her own horse, her own...
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Why I Love Ramona Quimby
So, today I’m going to talk about another female heroine from my childhood. The wonderful Ramona Quimby, star of the Beezus and Ramona series by Beverley Cleary. Ramona first appeared in the Henry...
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How To Be Inspired By Something Without Copying It
So, you know that thing where you really, really, really love a book or a film or a TV series? Like, really love it, in a know-bits-of-it-off-by-heart, read-your-favourite-scenes-over-and-over-again,...
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Help! Oh no! I missed my blog slot!
I’m so sorry! So, to make up for it, I am going to write a short story JUST FOR GIRLS HEART BOOKS READERS. And I will publish it here on this blog! It will be about one of the characters in one of my...
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Homework
So, last month I asked you all for suggestions for things to put in a story about one of my characters. The suggestions you made are here:...
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Going Spare
So, a while ago, I was asked to write a short story for this anthology about girls in the First World War. As you will see if you read the anthology, girls did a lot of amazing things in the First...
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Research
When you write historical books, like I do, you have to do a lot of research. Lots of historical writers really enjoy this. They get all excited by finding out what sort of underwear people wore in...
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