The award winning author of over 70 books for children

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Two new books in the Franklin Watts Reading Champion series

Hilary has written The Helpful Pisky and The Hare and the Tortoise for the Franklin Watts Reading Champion series.  The series offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. The stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child’s reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.

The Murder of PC Austwick

Join Hilary at the Barnsley Book Festival in February as she reveals the compelling story of Constable Austwick’s murder in the village of Dodworth, and the dramatic manhunt that ensued. Drawing from contemporary newspaper reports and court records, Hilary will explain how she uncovered this gripping chapter of local history.

Tatty Mouse is back!

Now in a series of four books the endearing little mouse continues to find imaginative ways to recycle all she can find even if it's for birthdays or to celebrate Christmas.

The covers of the four books in the Tatty Mouse series.
Photo c/o Yorkshire Post Newspapers.

Hilary has written a wide range of children's books for many publishers including Hodder Children's Books, Franklin Watts, Scholastic, Little Tiger Press, Wayland, BBC Worldwide, Evans Brothers and Readzone.

She writes books that are fun, help reading and are loved by children throughout the world.

BBC Look North (Yorkshire)

Hilary was interviewed about The Copper Tree on Look North, the BBC regional news programme for Yorkshire.

Mixed Up series

Fantastic split page books to mix and match different combinations of fairy tales, magic spells or nursery rhymes to hilarious results.

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.

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