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Getting Storyshaped With Nicola Penfold

Season 1, Ep. 11

What a treat we have for you all this week, Storyshaped fans! This week, we're talking to Nicola Penfold, the brilliant author of Where the World Turns Wild, Between Sea and Sky, and Beyond the Frozen Horizon. All Nicola's books have a huge emphasis on the natural world and the place of humans within it, and the interplay between the ecology surrounding us and the emotional landscape within. Her books have an ultimately hopeful message, empowering readers young and old with the power and beauty of the natural world all around us - and as well as that, they're incredibly gripping adventures, too. Come with us as we take a trip through Nicola's bookish memories, and discover the stories which shaped her into the author, and climate activist, she is today.


Nicola's website is: www.nicolapenfold.com


Follow her on Twitter: @nicolapenfold


Follow her on Instagram: @nicolapenfoldauthor


Books mentioned in this week's episode include Nicola's own:


Where The World Turns Wild


Between Sea and Sky


Beyond the Frozen Horizon


and also...


The books of Shirley Hughes


Spot the Dog by Eric Hill


The work of Enid Blyton, including the Famous Five and the Malory Towers books, and The Island of Adventure and The Ship of Adventure


The Jill books by Ruby Ferguson


The Jinny and Shantih books by Patricia Leitch


The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell


The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann


Varjak Paw and The Outlaw Varjak Paw by SF Said


The pony books of Christine and Josephine Pullein-Thompson


The Sadlers Wells ballet books by Lorna Hill


A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively


The Way to Sattin Shore by Philippa Pearce


Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce


Dark Matter by Michelle Paver


Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence


Calling B for Butterfly by Louise Lawrence


The Last Storyteller by Donna Barba Higuera (The Last Cuentista in the US/Canada)


The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail


Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones


The Overstory by Richard Powers


Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt


Talking in Whispers James Watson


Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor


Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird


Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank


I Am David by Anne Holm


The Silver Sword Ian Seraillier


Our podcast bookshop in Ireland is Halfway Up the Stairs: www.halfwayupthestairs.ie


In the UK, check out our storefront on: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclaimer: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops.





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