Product Description

This collection of 18 stories aims to challenge the adult reader by using the theme of childhood to promote questions and bring together unexpected characters, themes and places. Floella Benjamin OBE writes in the foreword: ‘The stories confront difficult and important subjects head on.’ She adds, ‘the book manages to be both funny and deeply serious.’ The book conatins stories by Ginny Baily, Paul Brownsey, Jac Cattaneo, Catrin Kean, Julia Copus, Linda Cracknell, Mark Czanik, Tessa Hadley, Paul Kavanagh, Azmeena Ladha Sue Mackrell Laura McClelland, Kachi A. Ozumba, Matt Sharp, Christine Steenfeldt, Anna Stewart, Michael Stewart and Judith Tremaine Drazin.

Front cover image by Ruth Oakley

This volume of Riptide was produced in collaboration with extreme imagination Exeter Children’s Literature Festival 2013.