Wildspark: A Ghost Machine Adventure (Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2020)

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If you have a hedgehog it’s possible to get 2 bull gator meat. It’s pretty much useless and you can just throw it away. If you are constantly finishing a rotation with like 10-15 durability (not enough for another full run), try to add a few foxes into your rotation. I always finish with less than 5 durability on my gun To complete the quest simply walk over to one of the scarecrows that are 2 feet away from him, press R, and you’re done. Killing foxes that are directly between 2 wolves is the most efficient you can get. In particular, there is often a fox between wolves 2&3 as well as a fox between wolves 4&5.

Finally, the overarching themes all work so well. They are all intrinsic parts of the story, nothing feels bolted on or out of place. Life and death, loss and acceptance, morality, technological progress, equality. All of them are handled sensitively.The front cover design for Wildspark by George Ermos is very striking! How did it feel when you saw it for the first time? The stakes didn't feel high- even when considering "life and death" situations- and I found the developments very predictable. What advice would you give to teachers about how to develop reading for pleasure in their classrooms? Once you get better (and get skilled 10 hunting) you can wear Hunter’s Clothes instead of armor to get a little bit of extra xp.

Vashti Hardy has conjured up an utterly believable world in Wildspark which draws you in, captivating in its inventiveness. Prue is a winning heroine, and along with the wonder and adventure, there are plenty of deep and difficult questions to consider about death, life, grief and prejudice.While it’s also not mandatory to gather from them after killing them (and you don’t need their meat for any quest), they do give a chunk of xp (more than the elk) so it’s worthwhile to do so. You can equip up to 2 Dim Hunting EXP crystals for a +6% increase. It’s not much, but every bit helps… right? In Wildspark, the apprentices at the Guild are given the task of designing a ghost machine (called "personifates" in the story), suitable for retrieving something underwater. Children could take that scene and use it as a basis for inventing their own underwater personifates. You could hold a class competition and see if they could do better than Prue and the other apprentices in the story! I think it’s enormously important and I do my best to create a diverse cast of characters. All children need to be able to see themselves as the heroes of stories – we all have a multitude of things that make us who we are and as authors we have a duty to be mindful both in our leading characters and in the secondary characters.