In this episode of the Your Kid’s Next Read Friday First Chapters series:
Allison Rushby reads ‘Miss Penny Dreadful and The Midnight Kittens’
Allison Rushby reads from ‘Miss Penny Dreadful and the Midnight Kittens’, the first book in the Miss Penny Dreadful series for readers 8+, illustrated by Bronte Rose Marando
About Allison Rushby
Allison Rushby is a children’s, YA and adult fiction author with more than 30 books to her name.
Her middle-grade books The Turnkey, The Seven Keys, The Mulberry Tree and When This Bell Rings (Walker/Candlewick) are spooky tales aimed at intermediate readers.
Her latest series are the Miss Penny Dreadful mysteries and The Wish Sisters series for junior readers.
Allison is Team YKNR’s community manager and our Giveaway Queen.
Find out more about Allison Rushby here.
About Bronte Rose Marando
Bronte Rose Marando is a Sydney based illustrator.
Her whimsical artwork is influenced by our natural world, a love of narrative, the unknown and all things mysterious and magical.
When she isn’t drawing you can find Bronte with her nose in a good book or wandering about antique stores.
About ‘Miss Penny Dreadful and The Midnight Kittens’
An enquiring mind – and mystical mysteries to solve – adds up to adventure in the first book of the new junior fiction series from acclaimed author Allison Rushby.
“Now, Miss Pickering.” Miss Strickland turned to her pupil. “If you would be so kind as to close the door behind you, we will endeavour to discuss why your aunt, her publisher and her monkey have called upon us this afternoon.”
1872
Forever in trouble for sketching in her notebook, Penny Pickering dreams of her famous authoress aunt turning up at her boarding school and whisking her away. So when Aunt Harriet appears at Miss Strickland’s School for Girls of an Enquiring Mind and asks Penny if she would like to join her on an adventure, Penny knows exactly what to say – yes, please!
Penny soon finds herself headed for Hampshire and a strange place called Mr Toddington’s Museum of the Curious and Absurd where bewitched kittens are said to have a tea party at midnight.
Published by Walker Books Australia
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