Cover Reveal for IT’S RAINING BATS AND FROGS and a giveaway!

I’m super excited to be able to reveal the cover of my forthcoming book, IT’S RAINING BATS & FROGS, today! The illustrator, Steven Henry, has done a fantastic job of bringing this entire book to life, but the cover alone, is pure magic—in more ways than one.

But before I reveal this magical cover, I want to share with you the story of how BATS & FROGS came about…

As you can see from the picture below, I love mucking about in the rain. I go out in the rain any chance I get. In fact, I love rain so much that one of my daughters’ middle names is ‘Raine’. Except we spell it with an ‘e’ at the end, which gives her name a completely different meaning. However, I wanted to name her ‘Rain.’ But that’s another story. Suffice it to say that I find rain magical too, just like my book cover.

Singing in the Rain

It was while I was out walking in the rain that I got the idea for IT’S RAINING BATS & FROGS. I’d decided I wanted to write a book about a witch, but I had no idea where to take my character from there. So I went out for a stroll in the rain to clear my head. And the more I walked, the harder the rain began to fall. Soon it was pouring that heavy kind of rain when people say “it’s raining cats and dogs”. Except this was to be a book about a witch, so it had to rain bats and frogs instead. As my idea formed, I thought of another saying, “It’s raining on my parade.” Bingo! I had the rest of my idea. I’d write about a witch parade that was being rained on and how the rain was making the witches miserable. I dashed home to write it down.

Here’s the book blurb that tells you more:

Delia has been looking forward all year to flying in the annual Halloween Parade. But parade day brings heavy rain. So, Delia takes action. Using her best magic, Delia changes the rain to cats and dogs. But that doesn’t work too well! Then hats and clogs. That doesn’t work, either! Each new type of rain brings a new set of problems. How can Delia save the day?

And now for the cover reveal and the giveaway:

One lucky winner will win a $20 USD Amazon gift card (or a £15 GBP card, depending on where you live)—just fill in the Rafflecopter by 20 February. There will be a further giveaway on Goodreads starting on 11 August, when the book comes out. If you want to mark it to read now, here’s the link.

Good luck and thanks for reading! And a big thank you also to Steven Henry, my agent, Kathleen Rushall, and all the team at Feiwel & Friends!

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