![]() ![]() Merrylegs (2019), the story of one pony’s journey to self-acceptance, is Smy’s first picture book for younger readers. This book tells the story of Billy, who runs away from home and takes refuge in a graveyard. Pam Smy’s second graphic novel for older readers, The Hideaway, is due to be published in October 2020. ![]() Thornhill was shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and longlisted for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal. ‘The Hideaway by Pam Smy is a work of art. Covering themes of families, childhood, domestic violence, being separated and reunited, this is an important and beautifully illustrated book for middle grade readers right up to adults. Growing up, Smy loved classic stories with strong female characters at their centre - Jane Eyre (1847), The Secret Garden (1911), Wuthering Heights (1847)- and you can see their influence in the suspenseful, Gothic atmosphere she creates in Thornhill. The wonderful long-awaited second novel from Pam Smy, the celebrated author and illustrator of Thornhill. Is the first book that she has written as well as illustrated. She teaches illustration at the Cambridge School of Art and has been illustrating children’s books for over 15 years. The unsettling stories of two lonely young girls run parallel to each other as Ella sets out to uncover the dark secrets of Thornhill and the mysterious puppets she finds in its overgrown garden.Ī chilling ghost story with a dual narrative told partly in diary entries and partly in atmospheric, wordless sepia illustrations. Ella has moved house and is drawn to the derelict ruin she can see from her bedroom window. Mary shuts herself away from her tormentors at the Institute for Children she calls home. ![]()
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