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Child's story is enthralling, exciting, intriguing and slightly sideways from anything you'd expect. It trusts the reader to not question the mysteries it offers up, believing in the world as it unfolds. It feels a small myth, an epic miniature, a glorious pocket-sized gem of a whole new world. I urge everyone to join Tisky on the adventure she doesn't know she's making - help her save her island and bring a little night and colour into her fellow islander's lives. * A.F. Harrold *

A spunky girl saves her town’s night sky in Katherine Child’s wonder-filled fantasy novel The Notted Island. […] Tisky exudes curiosity and passion. […] Her deep love for her island and sky propels the story toward success. […] Expressive illustrations further enliven the story. […] In the enchanting illustrated fantasy novel The Notted Island, a girl works to save the sky and find new friends. * Foreword, STARRED review * …With fun wordplay and the personification of natural phenomena as beings and tasks, this parable strikes an endearingly quirky, goodhearted tone as it underscores the importance of downtime and magical thinking in the face of ever-increasing demands for efficiency. Child’s frequent, detailed illustrations enhance the story with their depictions of Tisky’s unique world and compatriots. […] A fun treatise on the necessity of whimsy. * Kirkus Review * A gorgeous book. Strange and beautiful and filled with the magic of a classic, this is something very special indeed * Katya Balen (winner of the Carnegie Medal in 2022) * The Notted Island reads like a true labour of love. Each character, creature and place is densely described in word and image. The illustrations compliment the text, they build in ambition and complexity as the story goes on, the makers hand evident in every delicate mark. The two work together to form a complete whole, woven as the night sky in the story, with artful and joyous craft. It is a wonderful celebration of the hand-made and the process of creation. * Alexis Deacon * Katherine Child is a unique new talent, and The Notted Island is an extraordinary debut: reading it feels like stumbling over a forgotten children's classic in the back room of a dusty antique bookstore, full of treasures, and reading agog at the wonders inside. Strange, delirious, gorgeously illustrated, and with a captivatingly voice, its part Diana Wynne Jones, part James Thurber, and utterly distinctive. I can't wait to see what she makes next. * Ross Montgomery, author of Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year 2024 Winner, I Am Rebel *

A gorgeous book. Strange and beautiful and filled with the magic of a classic, this is something very special indeed. * Katya Balen * Child's story is enthralling, exciting, intriguing and slightly sideways from anything you'd expect. It trusts the reader to not question the mysteries it offers up, believing in the world as it unfolds. It feels a small myth, an epic miniature, a glorious pocket-sized gem of a whole new world. I urge everyone to join Tisky on the adventure she doesn't know she's making - help her save her island and bring a little night and colour into her fellow islander's lives. * A.F. Harrold * A deeply original debut -- Charlotte Eye * The Bookseller, Children's Previews *

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When Katherine Child was a child the idea of being grown up seemed so very unlikely that she never had many thoughts about what she would do when she finally got there. She grew up in Devon, studied in Cornwall then spent a couple of years as a background artist in children’s animation. On realising she was big, she decided she wanted to write and illustrate, went back to Falmouth to complete a masters in Authorial Illustration, then got a job in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, photographing insects. She now works part time at the museum and part time as a writer and illustrator.

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