Welcome to the website of
children's author, Hilary Robinson.
photo c/o Yorkshire Post Newspapers
The author of over 40 illustrated children's books, Hilary writes books that are fun, books that help reading and books that are loved by children throughout the world - from princesses to penguins to parties, there's a book for everyone!
Follow @H_A_RobinsonMixed Up series
Fantastic split page books to mix and match different combinations of fairy tales, magic spells or nursery rhymes to hilarious results.
Mixed Up Nursery Rhymes will be published in January 2013.
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Current news
Praise from The Bookseller for Mixed Up Nursery Rhymes!
Previewing titles published in July, the Bookseller has endorsed the paperback version of Hilary’s Mixed Up Nursery Rhymes.
A long awaited sequel to the brilliant Mixed Up Fairy Tales. Interactive split pages allow children to create their own versions of favourite rhymes. Ingenious, imaginative fun.
Mothers’ Union to sell The Copper Tree
Mothers’ Union, is now selling The Copper Tree, a book to help children come to terms with death and loss. With 4 million members worldwide 100% of the profit made from the sale of the book is covenanted back to the charity to fund the valuable work of supporting families in 83 countries.
USA website lists The Copper Tree
USA website lists The Copper Tree as one of the ‘Top Ten Books for Children Dealing with Death and Grief’.
Chosen by efuneral.com their selection is based on books that have “the ability to help bereaved children make sense of the difficult feelings associated with death and to understand the healing process.” They described The Copper Tree as “a tender and lighthearted approach towards helping young children understand death and the subsequent feeling of loss.”
BBC Look North (Yorkshire)
Hilary was interviewed about The Copper Tree on Look North, the BBC regional news programme for Yorkshire. <br> <br> <a class="player" title="Video footage of BBC Look North (Yorkshire)" href="http://www.hilaryrobinson.co.uk/robinson/wp-content/themes/hrobinson/video/Look-North-Hilary-Robinson-section.m4v"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-697" title="hilary-video" src="http://www.hilaryrobinson.co.uk/robinson/wp-content/media/hilary-video.png" alt="Hilary Robinson on BBC Look North (Yorkshire)" width="500" height="276" /></a>
International rights
International rights for the The Princess's Secret Letter and The Princess's Secret Sleepover (by the team that created 'The Copper Tree', Hilary Robinson and Mandy Stanley) have now been sold to France, the USA , Greece, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Wales, Indonesia and Brasil.
