Resources
Here you’ll find resources for my books, including book trailers, author videos, teaching notes, interviews, articles, reviews, sample chapters and even playlists for book soundtracks.
Black Hole Cinema Club
Black Hole Cinema Club trailer
Black Hole Cinema Club Spotify playlist
Download: Black Hole Cinema Club activity sheets
Create your very own movie poster for your feature film and solve the movie mayhem word search.
Escape Room
Play the virtual Escape Room game! Follow this link to see if you can find the Answer!
Play the virtual Escape Room game! Follow this link to see if you can find the Answer!
Escape Room cover reveal trailer
Escape Room Spotify playlist
The Times Children’s Book of the Week review of Escape Room
Download: Teacher Resource Pack for Escape Room
This resource uses Escape Room as a starting point to help explore cross-curricular themes around topics of friendship, the environment and ancient civilisations. There are suggested activities and discussion questions which can be used with a whole class or groups within a class, but can also be used to develop further activities and ideas, or to pose some ‘big questions’ for pupils to develop into personal projects.
Author interview about stories, videogames and Escape Room
Download: A Tour of The Escape
Find out more about the people, places and ideas that inspired Escape Room in this exclusive extract from the back of the American edition of Escape Room (US title: Race for the Escape). Spoiler Alert! Do not read this section until you've finished the book!
Space Oddity
Download: The Dad Who Fell To Earth
Read an exclusive prequel chapter to Space Oddity: The Dad Who Fell To Earth.
Introductory video for Space Oddity
Space Oddity Spotify playlist
The Times Children’s Book of the Week review of Space Oddity
The Longest Night of Charlie Noon
Download: Teacher Resource Pack for The Longest Night of Charlie Noon
The Longest Night of Charlie Noon Spotify playlist
Fun Kids Radio interview about The Longest Night of Charlie Noon
Read the opening chapter of The Longest Night of Charlie Noon
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
Download: KS2 & KS3 Teacher Resource Pack for The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
Watch the trailer for The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day Science Explainer videos
Download: The Science of Maisie Day fact sheet: Black holes
Download: The Science of Maisie Day fact sheet: The Universe
Download: The Science of Maisie Day fact sheet: The Big Bang
Download: The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day poster
Fun Kids Radio interview about The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
Book Shambles podcast with Robin Ince
The Times Children’s Book of the Week review for The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
Read the opening chapters of The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
Find out more about the soundtrack for The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day Spotify playlist
The Jamie Drake Equation
Learn about the real-life science behind The Jamie Drake Equation in this exclusive extract from the back of the American edition of the book: The Science of The Jamie Drake Equation. Download: The Science of Jamie Drake.
Check out these author videos to watch a reading from The Jamie Drake Equation, find out more about the inspiration behind the book, learn about Christopher’s favourite science and space facts and discover if he thinks that there’s life on other planets.
Read the first two chapters of The Jamie Drake Equation
Kirkus review of The Jamie Drake Equation
The Guardian review of The Jamie Drake Equation
The Times Children’s Book of the Week review of The Jamie Drake Equation
Science and Fiction: an article for the Federation of Children’s Book Groups
Interview with Books for Keeps magazine
Interview with Cotswold Homes magazine
Interview with Chris Hawkins at BBC 6 Music about the soundtrack to The Jamie Drake Equation
The soundtrack to The Jamie Drake Equation
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
Learn about the real-life science behind The Many Worlds of Albie Bright in this exclusive extract from the back of the American edition of the book: The Science of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright. Download: The Science of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright.
Read the opening chapter of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
Teach Primary review of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
The Times Children’s Book of the Week review of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
A guest post for Scottish Book Trust: How can stories help children explore difficult subjects?
Article for The Guardian: How to create a book soundtrack
Article for The Guardian: Top 10 parallel worlds in fiction
The soundtrack to The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
Download: Teacher notes for The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
Interview about The Many Worlds of Albie Bright with Samira Ahmed for Front Row on BBC Radio 4
Twelve Minutes to Midnight
Article for Teach Primary magazine on Charles Dickens
Interview with the Jupital about the Twelve Minutes to Midnight trilogy
Shadows of the Silver Screen
The Black Crow Conspiracy
The Telegraph review of The Black Crow Conspiracy
Article for The Guardian: Christopher Edge’s top 10 twisted histories
How To Write Your Best Story Ever!
Guest blog and downloadable activity sheets about how to write a scary story