A collection of resources and links themed by book, with other writing for children and adults at the bottom of the page…
A Year of Fairy Tales
September Zine: Treasure Search and Things to Do
(More Zines will appear here each month!)
Gifts from our ancestors: the power of fairy tales (piece created for the British Library, external link)
The House With Chicken Legs
Teachers’ Notes produced by Usborne
CILIP Carnegie Shadowing Resources produced by CLPE
Teaching Ideas by Ashley Booth published by Teach Primary
Design Your Own Home With Legs BW Worksheet
Design Your Own Home With Legs Colour Worksheet
Create a Baba Yaga Zine Template
Recipe for Marinka’s Spiced Honey Bread
Shchi for Marinka: a recipe by Chez Maximka (external link)
Drama resources from Les Enfants Terribles (external link)
Stylist Piece on Grief, Writing and The House with Chicken Legs (written for adults, external link)
The Girl Who Speaks Bear
CILIP Carnegie Shadowing Resources produced by CLPE
Map of The Snow Forest illustrated by Kathrin Honesta
Pryaniki for Yanka: a recipe by Chez Maximka (external link)
“A Forest of Stories for a Girl in Search of Herself: The Snow Forest as a Narrative Scene in Sophie Andersonʼs The Girl Who Speaks Bear” by Caterina Balistreri Bonsaver, Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aethetics (external link)
The Castle Of Tangled Magic
Resource pack for teachers and librarians produced by Usborne
Map of The Land of Forbidden Magic illustrated by Saara Söderlund
The Thief Who Sang Storms
Teaching Resources produced by Usborne & Shapes for Schools
Letter to Readers about The Thief Who Sang Storms
Design Your Own Magical Map Activity illustrated by Joanna Lisowiec
The Snow Girl
Create Your Own Snowflake Template
Create Your Own Snowflake Instructions
CLPE Blog: Using The Snow Girl to inspire creativity and explore big emotions (external link)
Other Writing for Children
the dragon under your ribs, a poem published in …And I Hear Dragons, edited by Hanan Issa
The Hummingbird’s Smile, a short story published in The Book of Hopes, edited by Katherine Rundell
Branwen and the Cauldron of Rebirth, a retelling of the second branch of The Mabinogi, published in The Mab, edited by Matt Brown and Eloise Williams
Other Writing for Adults
Things I have learned from Fairy Tales, a poem published in DUST poetry issue 16 (external link)
Ten Tips on Working with Stories, an updated version of a piece published in Swallowed by a Whale, edited by Huw Lewis-Jones
Sophie Anderson 