![]() ![]() ![]() We are so proud to share that two of our children’s authors are on the shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2015! Could it be his mother secretly trying to contact him? Or is there something more sinister going on?īoy in the Tower and Smart shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize! And ever since then his stutter has become almost unbearable.īullied at school and ignored by his father, the only way to get out the words which are bouncing around in his head is by writing long letters to his ma which he knows she will never read, and by playing Scrabble online.īut when Finlay is befriended by an online Scrabble player called Alex, everything changes. Except it isn't funny at all, because there's not a thing I can do about it.'įinlay's mother vanished two years ago. POP! It jumps and ricochets and bounces around my gob. Hilarious, isn't it? It's like the word is there in my mouth, fully formed and then, just as it's ready to leave my lips. I can see OK, can hear perfectly fine and I can write really, really well. ‘That’s one seven letter word I wish didn’t exist. ![]() A Seven Letter Word, the second novel from the multi-award winning Kim Slater is published today by Macmillan Children’s Books. ![]()
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