We were lucky to get this chance to have a chat on the fly with the super-busy Jennifer Claessen - she was between school visits on the day we spoke to her! Huge thanks to her for making the time to sit down with us. In this week's episode, we take a high-energy whizz through a brilliantly Storyshaped life, so strap in and get ready. This one was fun!
Books mentioned in this week's episode include Jenny's own:
The October Witches
The November Witches
The December Witches
The January Witches (novella)
Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime
And the stories which have shaped her include:
Scribble Boy, by Philip Radley
The work of Tamora Pierce
The Redwall books, by Brian Jacques
Red Thread, by Jorge Luis Borges
The legend of King Arthur, particularly The Sword in the Stone
Myth and legend in general!
This episode of Storyshaped, with Louie Stowell
The work of Sophocles
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the stage show version
The Tiger Who Came to Tea, by Judith Kerr
The work of Eva Ibbotson
Brambly Hedge, by Jill Barklem
Angelina Ballerina, by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig
Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman
Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood
Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
The Morse books by Colin Dexter
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett
Skullduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy
Peter Pan, by JM Barrie
Daughter of the Sea, by Berlie Doherty
The Sea Maiden's Odyssey, by Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell
Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones
The work of Benjamin Zephaniah, particularly his version of Tam Lin
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