Abie Longstaff, Illustrated by Letizia Rizzo, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat
I really like stories where children are empowered to make or invent things; stories about florists and carpenters and scientists and hairdressers and painters and potters. My son is a blacksmith and I love seeing metal reshaped into something amazing and interesting. Pretty much every book I write has magic or fantasy in it, so in this story I had to have a dragon too!