You Are a Story

Laura Dockrill (Author) Laura Dockrill is a performance poet and novelist whose inventive and vibrant approach to life is reflected in the vividly imagined worlds she creates. She is author of the Carnegie Medal nominated YA novel Lorali, as well as Big Bones, and for younger readers, The Dream House and Butterfly Brain. Laura has appeared on Blue Peter and CBeebies and is a frequent poet performer at festivals such as Glastonbury, Hay, Edinburgh and Latitude. Laura lives in London with her husband and young son. You can follow her on Twitter @LauraDockrillLotte Cassidy (Illustrator) Lotte is an illustrator and animator from London, currently studying for a masters at the Royal College of Art. She loves to explore the everyday, inspired by her surroundings, documenting people and their connection to a place. In her camera roll you will find people in puffer jackets, fish and chips, dogs with long legs, chimneys and hopscotch on the pavements.

This book is much like the author - warm, honest, open, encouraging. I loved it and want to buy a copy for every creative teenager I know.