Happy goodreading!Ĭandy Gourlay was born in the Philippines, grew up under a dictatorship and met her husband during a revolution. She has written a comics biography Illustrated by Tom Kni Hello Goodreaders! If you'd like news about me and my books, do check out my website where I blog now and then, or subscribe to my profile on Instagram. Her latest book is Mike Falls Up, illustrated by Carles Ballesteros, a portal fantasy for young readers beginning to explore beyond picture books. It took her years to learn that Filipino stories too, belong in the pages of books. Growing up, she wondered why books only featured pink-skinned children who lived in worlds that didn’t resemble her tropical home in Manila. Happy goodreading! Candy Gourlay was born in the Philippines, grew up under a dictatorship and met her husband during a revolution. She lives in London with her family, where she wages war on the snails in her garden.Hello Goodreaders! If you'd like news about me and my books, do check out my website where I blog now and then, or subscribe to my profile on Instagram. She is currently serving on the Children’s Writers’ and Illustrators’ Group of the Society of Authors. Other books by Candy include Bone Talk, a historical novel set in the Philippines, and picture books Is It a Mermaid and Mike Falls Up.Ĭandy is an ardent member of the international "kid-lit" organisation, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Her second book, Shine, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and both novels won the Crystal Kite Prize. She worked as a journalist, a cartoonist, a fake American voiceover talent and a web designer – before finally becoming an author of children’s books.Ĭandy's first novel for primary school children, Tall Story, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Branford Boase Prize.
As a result, she took many detours on her way to becoming an author. Growing up in the Philippines at a time when most books were imported from the West, Candy Gourlay wondered why all the books she ever loved only featured pink-skinned children who lived in snow-covered worlds that didn’t resemble her steamy, tropical home in Manila.
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