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A story about imagination, story telling, sharing and swapping! DJ Lucas is a famous author, and Max adores DJ's books! Max wants to write something just as good himself, so he sends a letter to DJ asking for advice. Through the touching and funny correspondence that follows we learn how to write a story. Ages 8-12.

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Sally Grindley

Sally Grindley

Sally Grindley won the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award for Shhh! (Andersen) and the Smarties Prize for Can I Help, Dad (Simon and Schuster) and was shortlisted for the Sheffield and Norfolk Libraries Book Award with Orchard picture books Little Elephant Thunderfoot and Polar Star respectively. Since then, Sally has gone on to write Feather Wars (Bloomsbury), her first novel for older children, to great acclaim. Sally lives in Gloucestershire. Tony Ross is one of the most highly regarded children's book illustrators in Britain with a huge fan base abroad as well. For Orchard he has illustrated several myths series, Balloon Lagoon and the One and Only books by Laurence Anholt. Tony lives in Wales.

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