With my new book, More to Mealtimes, encouraging children to eat a rainbow, when e-met Liz Hedgecock, I was intrigued by the Christmas Carrot. I interviewed Liz about her children’s story.
How did your Christmas book come about?
I mostly write contemporary and historical mystery novels for adults, but occasionally I write stories for children. I have two kids who are now teenagers, and I also tutor English part-time in a primary school. My picture book A Christmas Carrot, illustrated by Zoe Harmon, was inspired by two things. The first was wondering if I could pull off a modern, non-religious retelling of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol which would be suitable for children. The second was my hatred of brussels sprouts, which lots of people think of as a Christmas vegetable – probably because no one eats them at any other time of year. When you think about it, carrots are far more Christmassy – the snowman’s nose, the reindeer’s carrot. So this book is also an attempt to establish the carrot as the true Christmas veg!
More to Liz
Liz Hedgecock grew up in London, England, did an English degree, and then took forever to start writing.
Now Liz travels between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, murdering people. To be fair, she does usually clean up after herself.
Liz’s various mystery series are available in ebook and paperback.
Liz lives in Cheshire with her husband and two sons, and when she’s not writing or child-wrangling you can usually find her reading, messing about on Twitter, or cooing over stuff in museums and art galleries. That’s her story, anyway, and she’s sticking to it.
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