Storyshaped

We were lucky to get this chance to have a chat on the fly with the super-busy Jennifer Claessen - she was between school visits on the day we spoke to her! Huge thanks to her for making the time to sit down with us. In this week's episode, we take a high-energy whizz through a brilliantly Storyshaped life, so strap in and get ready. This one was fun!

Books mentioned in this week's episode include Jenny's own:

The October Witches

The November Witches

The December Witches

The January Witches (novella)

Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime

And the stories which have shaped her include:

Scribble Boy, by Philip Radley

The work of Tamora Pierce

The Redwall books, by Brian Jacques

Red Thread, by Jorge Luis Borges

The legend of King Arthur, particularly The Sword in the Stone

Myth and legend in general!

This episode of Storyshaped, with Louie Stowell

The work of Sophocles

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the stage show version

The Tiger Who Came to Tea, by Judith Kerr

The work of Eva Ibbotson

Brambly Hedge, by Jill Barklem

Angelina Ballerina, by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig

Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman

Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood

Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer

The Morse books by Colin Dexter

Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett

Skullduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy

Peter Pan, by JM Barrie

Daughter of the Sea, by Berlie Doherty

The Sea Maiden's Odyssey, by Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell

Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones

The work of Benjamin Zephaniah, particularly his version of Tam Lin

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