M. G. Leonard

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It’s publication week for The Ice Children.

If you’re in Oxford, England, this summer so visit the museum. It’s magical.

I will be at the celebration event on the 14th September along with all these fantastic authors and their brilliant books! If you’re in the Lake District, why not join us?

To the teachers & beetle enthusiasts out there, you’re going to want this book.

What a delightful honour to get to hang out with such clever people and talk about books for young readers. I feel very lucky to be a judge for the 2023 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, shortlisting the best #youngscibooks of the year.

This was my weekend. Listening to podcasts and signing my name thousands of times. #TheIceChildren

Can Bianca save her brother and the other Ice Children before they are forever lost?

This sculpture is one of my most prized possessions. The pedestal is a rare piece of ebony. The dung ball was turned by my father-in-law John Sparling - a renowned wood turner of Gloucestershire. He made me this piece as a gift for the launch of #BeetleBoy. The silver dung beetle was cast in his brother’s workshop. When the sun hits it in the morning it sets my work ethic for the day. For a story is rather like a dung ball, gathered from the waste of a greater animal, out of which hatches new life. I am the industrious dung beetle navigating by the Milky Way to bring my story home. #mgleonard #inspiration https://www.instagram.com/p/BtSvAd0HQMg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15g7bahvy99yq

Look what arrived to blast away the Monday blues! It’s the American hardback edition of #battleofthebeetles with super sexy cover art by Julie McLaughlin. I’m proud of my beetle filled adventures and delighted that American readers will now be able to complete the trilogy. Thanks @sampalazzi 🥰💚 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtLuO6OHh62/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1y1cvbzdszui1

Something very special creeps into bookshops today... Happy Publication Day to my beautiful Beetle Collector’s Handbook, May all who open your pages discover treasure. #mgleonard #nature #beetle #beetleboy #beetlequeen #beetlecollectorshandbook #coleoptera https://www.instagram.com/p/BnYC_PZFtc_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x8mxr2yg0lin

Let’s go on an adventure... https://www.instagram.com/p/BmneAWsFZMs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ty0d6mdiufr1

‪Best NEWS! Beetle Boy is chosen as 1 of the 100 best children’s books published in CHINA by the Library Society of China 🇨🇳 30 other books in this age category. Winners announced in November 🤞🐞http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI5MzE1NzM4OA==&mid=2247484609&idx=2&sn=a4e7b1b4dde3ead2a4c454b0f3e9b953&chksm=ec772ba2db00a2b44fb0e3ce3f1902ac445562ef52f65f16b2f4522d1c5b68ae82872157cf9d&mpshare=1&scene=23&srcid=0725cqslxFtO49pLEOAz9Tdd#rd‬

To all you Liverpudlian lovelies, I’m doing the CBBC summer social again this year on 3rd of August. And so is my good friend @kiran_mh 😃 Check out the lovely picture they made of us for their website. It perfectly expresses our friendship 🌈 Details are in the event calendar on my website and yes, will be bringing my pets 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞