Hello and welcome to Ella May, the girl who likes to do things her way. In the first of this brilliant new series all about an imaginative, strong-willed girl character with her own ideas, Ella May tries walking backwards, just to see how it feels. In her bedroom she tries reading her books backwards, and after dinner she goes backwards up to the bathroom and climbs backwards into bed. When Ella goes backwards up the slide and backwards over the castle, Ella's mum decides to turn around and walk backwards next to Ella, to make it easier for them to talk. Pretty soon, half the town is walking backwards in a giant, backwards-walking procession. Where will it end?
Mick Jackson is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter from Lancashire, UK, now living in Brighton. He studied drama and then completed the Creative Writing MA course at the University of East Anglia where his tutors were Malcolm Bradbury, Rose Tremain and Michele Roberts. Mick’s first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and won The Royal Society of Authors’ First Novel Award. He has since published several novels and short story collections, as well as writing and directing screenplays and documentaries. He has recently started writing for children and While You’re Sleeping is his first book for this younger audience.
