Jun
2015
The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow: Video Blog Tour
To celebrate the publication of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow this week, some of my favourite children’s book bloggers took part in a Clockwork Sparrow video blog tour!
Each day of the tour featured a new video with me talking a bit about the book.
I loved all the amazing content created by the bloggers – like the Clockwork Sparrow craft project on Playing by the Book or George Lester’s fab video review.
I thought I’d post a quick round-up of the videos and links to all the blog posts here.
Thanks so much to all the fantastic bloggers who took part!
The first stop on the blog tour! What inspired The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow?
How did mystery stories help inspire The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow?
Talking about the department store setting for the book…
Day 4: The Overflowing Library
Kirsty also wrote a fab review of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow here!
[Oops – looks like this video is missing!]
Day 5: Middle Grade Strikes Back
Bringing the Edwardian department store to life…
Talking about some of the similarities between Sophie and Lil’s London and the modern day.
Researching department stores!
Finding out about Edwardian crime!
The special announcement that The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow is Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month for June!
Talking about main character Sophie – plus a fantastic Clockwork Sparrow inspired craft project!
Day 11: George Lester Reads
Talking about the characters – plus a video review from George!
Find out more about the Baron (plus enter a giveaway to win a copy of the book!)
UPDATED: The lovely LaChouett also did this great interview in which I chatted to her about favourite mystery stories, the allure of red shoes, the most fun Clockwork Sparrow character to write about, and much more…