A.F. Harrold - For Kids
This is the website where I, A.F. Harrold, an English poet, writer and performer (who does things with words that aren't always entirely normal), show off the things that I've made for wise and curious young readers, listeners and lookers. Feel free to go explore!
Brand new! Only available here!
If you’re interested in finding out how The Imaginary (now a major motion picture you can watch on Netflix) came to be written and want some exclusive behind-the-scenes tidbits, then check out the limited edition book (by clicking the link): Imagining the Imaginary.
Also brand new! Also only available here!
An exclusive strange short story by me, with art by the highly decorated illustrator Alexis Deacon. In a limited edition of 200 copies, come treat youself to something unusual.
Just before Christmas, 2024, AFH gave the annual University of Reading Children’s Winter Lecture, on the subject of ‘imagination’, and here it is!
Illustration of AFH as a book gnome and The Imaginary and The Afterwards book covers by Emily Gravett; photos of AFH (above and below) by Naomi Woddis; Fizzlebert Stump book covers by Sarah Horne; The Song From Somewhere Else and The Worlds We Leave Behind book covers by Levi Pinfold; the Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard cover is by Chris Riddell; Midnight Feasts’ cover is by Katy Riddell; The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice is by Mini Grey; the Welcome to Wild Town cover is by Korky Paul; the Poems for 7 Year Olds cover is by Roxana de Rond; and the Greta Zargo covers are by Joe Todd-Stanton.