What’s on offer this term, Autumn 2023

• NEW Rocky Race series
• NEW Football Ultimate Heroes
• Rugby Union World Cup
• October starts Christmas Book Giving
• November Remembrance Day 2023
• December Christmas History Special Virtual: WWII Arctic Star 80th Anniversary
• Christmas Arctic Star resources
• January 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day
• Spring Term Author visits
• May 2024 New historical fiction preview

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Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

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New Zealand: Wheelers
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WIN THREE BOOKS FEATURING SPORTING GIRLS AS THE MAIN CHARACTER FOR YOUR SCHOOL

After the buzz created by the Lionesses in this summer’s World Cup finals, I expect school libraries will be looking to restock with even more books about girls playing sport.

I’m offering schools the chance to win one of six sets of three of my books and a pack of 10 sample chapters of my forthcoming book about a British girl who goes to play football in California.

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I have written many sports stories featuring girls as the main character:

Secret FC (2010), 6+
Typhoon (2016), 7+
My First Football Game (2013), 4+
Armistice Runner (2018), 9+
Rocky (2020), 9+
Gus the Fantastic Football Cat (2018), 5+
Game Changer (2022), 10+
Soccer Diaries I (2023), 10+

Find out more about them below.

Out September 2023 Rocky Takes LA.  Pre-order signed and dedicated copies from my local independent bookshop, The Thoughtful Spot here:  www.thethoughtfulspotbooks.com/product-page/the-soccer-diaries-book-1-rocky-takes-la

“Rocky is a brilliant role model for girls and boys alike, showing that there is always a way through life’s challenges if you keep going and never give up.” Kate Heap

2023 World Cup Activities

Rocky Doodle Doo Colour in and add your own football linked doodles to download and print off here 

Play Rocky’s 2023 World Cup Reading Game in the classroom or library  and discover lots of way to enjoy football and enjoy reading here.

Learn to draw Rocky with Lisa Henke here.

More about my books featuring girls playing football:

4 + First Football Game

5 + GUS THE FAMOUS FOOTBALL CAT

A funny and heartwarming story about a girl and her pet cat, who becomes a World Cup celebrity! 

There’s a football challenge at Yusra’s school and everyone wants to win. Which class can find the best way to predict England’s World Cup results? Yusra has an idea – her pet cat Gus could help! As Gus keeps guessing the scores right, the word spreads and soon everyone wants a piece of the famous football cat.  But is the life of a celebrity as purrfect as it seems?

Published by Egmont.  More about Gus here 

7 + SECRET FC

Lily,  Maddie and Zach can’t believe it when the new headmaster bans football in the playground.  Living in the inner-city, there is nowhere else to play.  Then Zack has a brilliant plan and soon a very special secret football club is formed . . .

Published by Barrington Stoke

More about Secret FC here

9 + Rocky of the Rovers

Rocky is the sixth and historic book in the brand new series of illustrated middle grade fiction titles starring Roy of the Rovers, the classic British children’s football hero rebooted for the 21st century. This time, it’s all about Rocky, Roy’s football-mad younger sister!

A struggling student and brilliant footballer, Rocky Race is many things, but to most people she’s just Roy Race’s little sister. It’s not much fun – especially as Melchester Rovers head to the League Cup Final.

Rocky’s sick of everyone knowing her through Roy, she’s had enough of school, and she’s even started having panic attacks.

Now it’s up to Rocky to find her own way – as a person and a player – and she’s going to need all her grit and determination to do it…

Published by Rebellion.  More about Rocky here

9 + Game Changer

The newly formed Melchester Women’s team are going from strength to strength in their first full season of professional football, lead by the tenacious Rocky Race. Can she maintain her match-winning performances? And just where does her footballing future lie?

‘I LOVED this book! I love how the story turns from one stage to another. I would definitely recommend it to any girl who enjoys football! I love that Rocky has real determination and passion for the game.’ Jess, Year 5.

Rocky of the Rovers book – Game Changer – was selected for the 2023 Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Game Changer is the latest story about Rocky Race, sister of Roy of the Rovers, and has already been featured on the front page of the Times newspaper.

More about Rocky here

9 + Rocky Takes LA

The Soccer Diaries is a brand new series starring Rocky Race, a British footballer looking to make it big in a US soccer school.

Rocky Race is not your average fourteen year old. She’s determined, ambitious and the best football player you’ve ever seen. So, when she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a prestigious soccer camp in California, USA, she takes it. But far from home, Rocky suddenly finds herself out of her comfort zone. Fake friends, her own anxieties and a brand new world with strange rules all threaten to derail her new life before it’s even started – does Rocky have what it takes to succeed?

Out September 2023. You can pre-order signed and dedicated copies from my local independent bookshop, The Thoughtful Spot here:  https://www.thethoughtfulspotbooks.com/product-page/the-soccer-diaries-book-1-rocky-takes-la

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshopHIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

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And watch out for a new Rocky of the Rovers book out September 2023

Keep in touch with how the series is progressing and get a newsletter reminder when it is out, email “Rocky Reminder” to admin@tompalmer.co.uk . 

Find out more about Rocky here

Contact me here for more information.

6 June 2023 D-Day in fiction : D-Day Dog

2023 marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.

To mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2023, I will have a SPECIAL competition coming soon on twitter to win your own Glenn soft toy dog and a signed copy of D-Day Dog.

Follow me on twitter @tompalmerauthor for a chance to win.

Jack can’t wait for the school trip to the D-Day landing beaches. It’s his chance to learn more about the war heroes he has always admired – brave men like his dad, who is a reserve soldier. But when his dad is called up to action and things at home spiral out of control, everything Jack believes about war is thrown into question.

Finding comfort only in the presence of his loyal dog, Finn, Jack is drawn to the heart-wrenching true story of one particular D-Day paratrooper. On 6 June 1944, Emile Corteil parachuted into France with his dog, Glen – and Jack is determined to discover their fate … More about D-Day Dog here.

D-Day Resources

Poster to download here      

D-Day Dog cover prediction worksheets  Download here

D-Day Dog Blackout Poem Challenge Introduction and how to guide to create your own Blackout Poems, including suggested texts, examples and a certificate. Download here

10 Questions about War for class discussions Download here    

Colouring What view do you think Jack and his new puppy are looking at? Can you draw the plane Emile and his dog Glenn are parachuting out or where they might be landing? Download here 

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here.  With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!  

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository. Australia: Boomerang Canada: Amazon Canada New Zealand: Wheelers USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here 35 books £190 saving £60 – over 20% discount FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.  

Schools class set offer here. 15 copies 20%+ discount 30 copies 25%+ discount 100 copies 30% + discount FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote    

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May 2023 15th Anniversary of Foul Play

Foul Play was my first children’s football series for Puffin.

Football Detective Danny Harte’s adventures took him all over the world tackling football crimes with the help of his friend Charlotte Duncan.

The series was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award

Follow me on twitter @tompalmerauthor for the chance coming up to win a very special Foul Play prize.

Find out more about Foul Play here.

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshopHIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

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Monday 9 September – Sunday 24 September 2024.

Fairtrade Fortnight is a great opportunity to get children thinking about where they spend their money and the difference that choice can make other people’s lives.  My children’s book “Off Side” is about fairtrade, trafficking and football.

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Fairtrade Fiction : Off Side

“Off Side” is about fairtrade, trafficking and football.

The hero of my children’s book Offside, is a boy called Kofi, who – as well as being a gifted footballer – is the son of cocoa bean farmers in Ghana.

At the beginning of the Off Side, Kofi’s family were being cheated and not paid a fair amount for their beans.

By the end they had become part of the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative which supplies chocolate manufacturers Divine.

I was very lucky, when in Ghana researching my novel Offside, that Divine took me to meet some farmers and to Akomaden School which is directly paid for by our buying Fairtrade Chocolate.

I have seen how the choice we make to buy Fairtrade chocolate improves lives: children being well-schooled, families learning to run their own businesses and  improved homes and healthcare.

Fairtrade Fortnight Resources

Free Fairtrade schools’ pack

Read Chapter One here.  

Virtual Fairtrade visits

I offer virtual and in-person school visits to talk about fair trade, reading, writing and football, linked to my book – Off Side – about a sixteen year old son of a cocoa farmer who is trafficked from Ghana to England, thinking he is going to be a famous footballer.  Having seen at first hand the difference it makes, I try to choose Fair Trade where I can.

Find out more about my Fairtrade visits here .

Football Trafficking

Off Side also looks at people trafficking, particularly the exploitation of young footballers from Africa.

Signed and dedicated copies of my books make an ideal Christmas gift. 

They are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

And each order made through the Thoughtful Spot will come with a special Christmas Card created by our good friend and illustrator James Innerdale  to mark the publication of a new book of mine and a bookmark.

Books can be simply signed by me or using their website you can specify a message like “To Nadiya, Happy Christmas” for me to add.

Order now here.

We have also been asked for books to be dedicated in memory of an armed forces family member.  For example, on copies of Arctic Star Tom can add a name and the ship the served on in memory of someone who served in the Royal Navy.

You can contact the “The Thoughtful Spot”  here for more information and to order.

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

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To celebrate the publication of my latest book, Resist,  I am offering a special souvenir readers’ pack.

Resist was inspired by the wartime childhood of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn and her role in the Dutch resistance.

It is aimed at children aged 9+.  More here.

The Souvenir Readers’ Packs contain:

• a signed postcard,
• a signed bookplate,
• a bookmark
• a poster

(I can personalise the bookplate with added dedications “To …”,  if requested below).

To request a pack, free of charge, please complete the contact form below.

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DISCOVER more about the inspiration behind Resist here.

FIND RESIST AT your local library, local independent bookshop, Waterstones, Amazon and Kindle. Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.  

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