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World Book Day 2022

World Book Day 2022

1In this World Book Day video for schools, author Ruth Owen shares her excitement for non-fiction children’s books. In the video (with some help from broccoli and microscopic moss pigs) Ruth shares why she became an author and why she loves writing factual books so much.    

The perfect book this Pride Month

Our Uncles the Cruncles

It’s pride month and here at Ruby we are so proud of Alex Waldron’s wonderful and totally unique book Our Uncles the Cruncles. When I first met with Alex to discuss his Fred & Woody books, I fell instantly in love with the draft manuscript of Cruncles. As with all books, it went through many […]

Mental Health Awareness Week

An honest note from our author, Ruth Owen, about her own mental health: It was a couple of weeks ago. I’d been feeling . . . low? Sad? Overwhelmed? Sometimes it’s impossible to describe, isn’t it? But something had been slowly building (as it does every so often) week by week. But as I sat […]

World Book Day – Author Reading!

This World Book Day we have something special to share with you – our first ever Author Reading! Listen along with your children as author, Ruth Owen, reads through her wonderful story of Mr Green Grows a Garden.   If your little ones enjoy the story then they might also like the nature themed activities […]

Writing Mr Green Grows a Garden by Ruth Owen

Author Reading

I LOVE gardening! To have the chance to write a book about creating a garden was wonderful. I also wanted to write a book about the friendship between two characters at very different stages in their lives: one older (I always imagine that Mr Green is in his early seventies at the start of the […]