Babette Cole at Cheltenham Literature Festival

This Saturday 15th October Babette will be at Cheltenham Literature Festival speaking about all things Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes! Babette will be appearing at the Sunday Times Garden Theatre from 10-11am, you can get tickets to see her here. It will...

Happy Publication Day!

Woo hoo, hoorah, hooray! It’s officially publication day! Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes is officially out today and you can get your copy from our online shop here! This is the first full-length, hilarious and action packed adventure from Princess...

Princess Smartypants’ Next Adventure!

Babette is excited to share the news that her next novel “Princess Smartypants and the Fairy Geek Mothers” is go! She has now started work on the illustrations after a brilliant meeting with Anne MacNeil and Polly Lyall-Grant at Hodder Children’s...

There’s no need for research, this is art!

Babette received an email this week from an aspiring young writer asking about the research process for her books. “I was just wondering how and what you researched to do with the target audience of your books?” “How do you understand what the...

Hoorah!

What an exciting surprise to receive this weekend! The very first copy of Babette’s brand new book Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes! As you can see, Babette is very happy to get her hands on this! Hodder Children’s Books have done a fab job on...

Princess Smartypants And The Missing Princes

Get ready, because Babette has a brand new book coming soon! Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes is the first ever full-length, hilarious and action-packed adventure from Princess Smartypants, written especially to celebrate her 30th birthday this year. The...

Arise Sir William!

Babette absolutely loves to receive messages from all her lovely readers about how much they enjoy her books, and recently received a great letter from 12 year old super fan William Kirwin… Hi, my name is William Kirwin, I won a contest and got a certificate...

Upcoming Exhibition At The Guggleton Farm Arts Project

Babette has very recently come back to live in Dorset, however was too late to register for Dorset Arts Week. But they have very kindly agreed to a “pop up” show – all we needed was a venue! Isabel de Pelet generously offered up the Milking Parlour...