Since book three, the plan has been to bring Milo forwards, for a few reasons. Why did you want to focus on Milo for this story?

I absolutely loved searching for treehouse images to inspire me, and it's one of the locations I most wish was real!Ĥ. The Botanist's treehouse is hidden just off Hadrian's Wall, near Sycamore Gap, and has a magical greenhouse as well as a library (and a very cosy kitchen too). I love treehouses, and have been trying to get one into the series since I started really. Honestly it's one of my favourite settings I've created. A 'treehouse library' sounds amazing - can you tell us a bit about it? She lives up in Northumberland, which is where I grew up, and much of the book is a bit of a treasure hunt looking for the ingredients for the cure in various books including The Secret Garden, The Owl and the Pussycat and Robin Hood!ģ. The Treehouse Library picks up straight after the end of The Book Smugglers, with Milo and Alessia slipping away from Pages & Co to try and track down the Botanist, who is the key to both the cure to the poisoned books, and to defeating the Alchemist. What happens in the latest book, The Treehouse Library? I very much enjoying coming back to the characters each book, I really know them well at this point! Having said that, I've really enjoyed introducing Milo as a new main character as it lets me explore bookwandering in a different way, but Tilly and Oskar are back in The Treehouse Library too!Ģ. I was thinking about Anne of Green Gables and what I would say to her and it all sort of developed from there! What was the original inspiration for the Pages & Co series? Do you enjoy coming back to the characters for each book?Ī jumble of all sorts of things but in particular my relationship with books and reading and libraries - I've always been a huge reader, and I worked as a school librarian for nearly five years so I'm a big believer in the power of books and imagination, children's books in particular.

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