Pam has illustrated books by Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles), Julia Donaldson (Follow the Swallow) and Kathy Henderson (Hush, Baby, Hush!), among others. Since then she has worked with a range of UK publishers including The Folio Society, Penguin Random House and David Fickling Books. She combines her teaching career with writing and illustrating. She studied on the MA herself, graduating with the first cohort in 2004. Pam Smy is a Senior Lecturer Practitioner in Illustration on the MA Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Pavilion Children's Books an imprint of Pavilion Books The Hideaway is a compelling, exciting and emotional story that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. The other tells of his mother's situation at home and the police search for Billy.Ĭovering themes of family, childhood, separation and reunion, domestic violence and doing the right thing, this is an important and beautiful book for middle grade readers right up to adults.īilly's story is illustrated throughout with tonal and textured black and white drawings, until the event on All Souls' Eve, when the text gives way to a series of double page images of the supernatural happening. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up feelings and emotions, and the supernatural events he eventually witnesses. The Hideaway is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story.

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