Escape from Sherwood

Michael Robins has a new game. It's cool. It's retro. It has bows and arrows, an evil king and something that he can see out of the corner of his eye. A chance glitch and a child's sticky fingers finds Michael and his friends sucked inside the computer where the game is reality and The Master is about to reset the program. Time is running out. Complete the levels or be deleted. With an unusual setting, great pace, and vivid characters, this short novel is a gripping page-turner for readers aged 8-11. AUTHOR: The most important thing about Beattie Alvarez is that she's a reader. She reads while she cooks, eats and showers, but NOT in bed. This is mainly due to the fact that she can't put the book down - just one more chapter, and one after that and one after that until the book is finished and the sun is rising. When she's not reading, she's a writer, illustrator, editor, graphic designer, toy shop owner and dragon maker. She has over half a dozen books with her name on the cover as an editor and is half of the creative duo Phoebe McArthur (author of the three Lucy Newton chapter books and middle-grade novel Charlie Chaplin: The Usual Suspect, also published by Christmas Press). As well, she's had several short stories published in various places. David Allan is an illustrator and artist whose first picture book, Two Trickster Tales from Russia (retold by Sophie Masson) was published by Christmas Press in 2013. Since then, he has illustrated other picture books, as well as short story anthologies, junior fiction books and storybooks for reading programs. His work is in private and public collections, and he has participated in solo and group exhibitions.