Year: 2020

Spylark was named Highly Commended Junior Novel in this year's Oxfordshire Book Awards which took place on-line. The Oxfordshire Book Awards winners are chosen by school students across Oxfordshire, so Danny is thrilled that so many children have enjoyed reading Spylark. You can find out more about the award, and watch Danny's and the other winners' videos here.

Spylark has won the Spellbinding Book Award 2020. The award is organised by Cumbria Library Services and involves school pupils from across Cumbria reading and voting for their favourite book. Danny really enjoyed taking part in this year's award. He had the opportunity to visit a number of the schools taking part, and he is thrilled to have won! You can find out more information here: http://spellbindingcumbria.org.uk/secondary/

Here's a short video of Danny reading a part of his book, Spylark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TXk9isZOO0

Danny had a great time visiting Ripley St Thomas School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School, talking to the pupils about drones, the Lake District, and his inspiration for Spylark.

Spylark has made it to the short list of the Cumbria School Library Service KS3 Spellbinding Award. Watch this space for more info soon!