Author Archives: Charlotte Sebag-Montefiore

It’s that time of year – for some autumn foraging, witches and Hallowe’en.  I love foraging, – it certainly gives purpose to a walk even if you don’t find anything! This year, I have found plenty of blackberries, and I thought I would start this blog by giving you the address of my friend JudyContinue reading “A Poem for Hallowe’en”

Hello!  I hope you are well. It’s blog time. Last time I talked about dinosaurs. (The answer to the riddle was the diplodocus). As you know, many if not most of the dinosaurs were monstrous. Monsters and dragons figure in myths and legends from cultures all over the world. When I was a girl, IContinue reading “The Binding of the Wolf”

In some ways, it seems to me that Covid-19 is like a monster. Many of us are afraid of it and it has certainly changed our behaviour. A lot of us miss something from our previous lives, and some of us miss a lot of things. Do let me know if there is something youContinue reading “Something you don’t know about Snow White”

Hello!  I hope you’re out there, – it would be nice to hear from you. It is impossible not to think about Covid-19, which is why I put up lyrics about it last time. (Wish I could sing, but I can’t…) Dinosaurs are very much in my mind, because my new book, HERBIE AND THE T.Continue reading “A Dinosaur Riddle related to my book HERBIE AND THE T. REX”

Hello! This is a new venture, for me (yes, I know I said that last time), and I have to start by saying I made a mistake before, – I will be writing new blogs once a month.   If you read my last one, maybe you knew the answer to the riddle: it is dormouse.Continue reading “One day, over the rainbow”

Hello! This is a new venture for me and I hope you will stay the journey!  I aim to update this blog with thoughts (maybe), and new material (definitely) once a month. As we are living through the horrible conundrum of Covid 19 (feminine in French, for some reason!), I thought I would start withContinue reading “Tag – writing and books”