(I just recommended this song for a smooth reading experience - Attiyah Greene) Please tap the arrow to go to next image/video you will see  a picture of one of my favourite writers who I will speak about in this review. Linda Iris Newbery.

My review:

At the firefly gate is the book that I will be reviewing or making my report on. It's a book written by Linda Iris Newbery a british writer known best for her works on young-adult fiction.

Linda Iris Newbery  a writer born on August 12 1952 in Romford,Essex. Spended most of her childhood in Epping and attended a grammar school named Loughton . As a child she had a passion for writing but kept it a secret due to her headteacher saying that writing wasn't a proper job. But even so she wrote in secret on her notes, textbooks and even exercise books. 

As a adult she even wrote poetry. she published her first book  Run With The Hare in 1988. Then later on in 2006 she published her second book Catcall earning Linda Newbery, her first ever award the Nestles children's book prize Silver Award. The Nestles children's book prize Silver Award is a annual award for british children books that ran from 1985-2007.

To make this award even more amazing and accomplished ,it was while she worked as a English teacher in secondary schools and only became a full-time writer in 1257!

Linda writes for various age groups and has twice been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. 

Linda Iris Newbery once said:

"When I was a child, dreaming that one day I might be an author, I used to gaze longingly at the N shelves in bookshops and libraries, and imagine my own books parked next to E. Nesbit's. She's still there, with her classic stories The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and others. Philip Pullman, nearby, takes up an awful lot of space, but sometimes there's room for me between them." this is only one of her responses during many interviews about her glowing p as a writer.

Linda Newbery looked up to many novel writers such as ;K. M. Peyton, Aidan Chambers and Jill Paton Walsh. She didn't know what teenage fiction because of how she grew up. She quoted:

 "When I was a teenager, there was no such thing as teenage fiction – you went straight from children's books to adult books. It wasn't until much later, when I was training to be an English teacher, that I came across teenage fiction, and excellent writers such as K. M. Peyton, Aidan Chambers and Jill Paton Walsh. Before long I wanted to have a go." You can say this was her push and motivation to jump into the genre which she is the best in now.

 Linda lives in a Northamptonshire village with her husband and three cats. She is an active member of the SAS and on the committee of the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group of the Society of Authors. 

This is the first page of my book report.