www.inkysprat.com 1st Birthday! The Brave Sprats, Babble Sprat, Manus Sprat and Neil Sprat braved terrifying storms to get to the famous Lamb inn at Sandford Devon, for their 1st Birthday Party. They also had something else to bubble about “The Trouble With...
18 February 2014 The Duchess of Cornwall served time behind bars last week, when she visited HMP Coldingley, Surrey, as part of Quick Reads. The Duchess is pictured with (from left to right) Simon Kernick, author of the Quick Reads title Wrong Time, Wrong Place; Sue...
The winner of the great Princess Smartypants Fan Mail Competition is William Kirwin from Cleveland Elementary School, Cleveland NC USA [gview file=”https://babette-cole.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/fan-mail-winner.pdf” save=”1″] This is the...
Here is today’s hot Valentine Gossip Happy VALENTINE’S DAY from Babette and the crew! We love you all so keep reading and …. Keep up with me, if you dare! AND Happy Birthday INKY SPRAT we are one year old today! With Love From Inky Sprat on St...
Who remembers the good ol’ favourite – Bagpuss? The saggy ol’ cloth cat was out on TVs back 40 years ago and Emily Firmin was his owner! Emily Firmin, who played the saggy old cloth cat’s owner, is now 48 – but is recognisable as the same...
WIN a free signed Princess Smartypants picture book! Babette has a new Princess Smartypants competition running. It closes on 14th February. Answer this question: What is the name of her wicked Uncle in “Long Live Princess Smartypants?” (pic attached)...
Wow ! So good to have finished my new 32 page picture book The Wildest West Country Tale of James Rabbit and the Giggleberries! I am still recovering from weeks of very late nights / mornings in order to get it finished for my wonderful publisher Ron Johns at Marecron...
Puffin are no longer to publish future Princess Smartypants books ! My new one, fourth in the series and the best one yet – “Princess Smartypants to the Rescue” has been rejected by Puffin after 28 years of a very successful publishing career...
“This is a reflection of the government’s closure of libraries and a swing toward e books. It is important we all support our local libraries.” PLR: authors share smaller pot 22 January 2014 Authors have today received their Public Lending Right...
A letter from the Post Office. This is absolutely the best!! We don’t know who replied, but there is a beautiful soul working in the dead letter department who understands LOVE. Our 14-year-old dog Abbey died last month. The day after she passed away my...
