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Tuesday 7 August 2012

12 Curly Questions with author Libbi Gorr

1. Tell us something hardly anyone knows about you. 
I don’t much like baked potatoes.

2. What is your nickname? 
Lisbeth.

3. What is your greatest fear? 
Not knowing my lines before I go out to perform.

4. Describe your writing style in ten words. 
Bouncy. Ticklish. And a Little Bit Naughty.

5. Tell us five positive words that describe you as a writer. 
Bouncy. Fun. Kissable. Cuddly. Cheeky.

6. What book character would you be, and why? 
The Naughtiest Girl in the School, because in the end I get it right and become a Monitor!

7. If you could time travel, what year would you go to and why? 
I’d like to be friends with Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice and flirt with all those blokes in britches.

8. What would your ten-year-old self say to you now? 
Tell me about this guy Harry Potter!

9. Who is your greatest influence? 
Enid Blyton, Bradley Trevor Grieve, Roald Dahl.

10. What/who made you start writing? 
My very pushy imagination.

11. What is your favourite word and why? 
Mummy! It is soaked in love.

12. If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? 
The Magic Faraway Tree and Harry Potter.

Out NOW!


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