A Clock of Stars author Francesca Gibbons answers your questions
Thanks to everyone who sent in questions for Francesca Gibbons. Check out her answers to her favourite questions, and while you’re at it you can read the first three chapters of A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth for free
READING LEVEL: ORANGE
Kids News readers sent in some great questions for Francesca Gibbons about her new book, A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth, and story writing in general.
See her video answers to her favourite questions below:
Mylie – Are moths you favourite insect?
Chloe – Has COVID influenced your writing?
Cormac – How do you come up with your ideas?
Eleanor – In your opinion, what is the most import element to writing a book?
Ruby – What did you learn when writing the book?
Minnie – When the illustrator drew the creatures based on your descriptions, were they how you imagined they would look?
Mia – Who inspired you to write books?
Daniel – Who is your favourite writer?
Ava – Who or what inspired the characters?
Sebastian – Why did you choose to call the moth the Shadow Moth and not the Ghost Moth or the Shiny Moth?
ABOUT A CLOCK OF STARS: THE SHADOW MOTH
Imogen should be nice to her little sister Marie. She should be nice to her mum’s boyfriend too. And she certainly shouldn’t follow a strange silver moth through a door in a tree.
But then … who does what they’re told?
Followed by Marie, Imogen finds herself falling into a magical kingdom where the two sisters are swept up in a thrilling race against time — helped by the spoiled prince of the kingdom, a dancing bear, a very grumpy hunter … and even the stars above them.
Thrilling, sharply funny, and with characters you will fall in love with, A Clock of Stars is a timeless fantasy from an astonishing new voice.
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