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Featuring in the BookTrust Great Books Guide 2021 is Lizzie & Lucky: The Mystery of the Missing Puppies, by Megan Rix, illustrated by Tim Budgen (Puffin). The Lizzie & Lucky series for readers aged 6+ stars Deaf protagonist Lizzie and her Dalmatian puppy Lucky, inspired by Megan Rix’s experience of living with partial deafness since childhood.

Like Megan, main character Lizzie is a BSL user and a lip-reader. Find out more in Megan Rix's blog for BookTrust: “Nothing stops me. Ever”: How Megan Rix was inspired to create a Deaf heroine 

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Lizzie & Lucky: The Mystery of the Lost Chicken by Megan Rix, illustrated by Tim Budgen (Puffin), is on the shortlist of the inaugural Inclusive Books for Children Awards. The winners in each of three age categories will be announced at a ceremony at the Barbican Centre in London on 28th February.

Megan Rix introduces her shortlisted title in British sign language in this video:

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Radha beautifully translates young fiction title Lizzie & Lucky: the Mystery of the Missing Puppies (Puffin) into British Sign Language. Championed by deaf author Megan Rix, herself a BSL user, this video was made by the Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) with support from the Arts Council. 

Lizzie & Lucky features for a second time in the BookTrust Great Books Guide this month, and the fourth and final book in the series is published today by Puffin, with illustrations by Tim Budgen. 

Also celebrating its launch today is the new Inclusive Books for Children (IBC) website (as reported in The Guardian). The first Lizzie & Lucky title has been selected as a Top Pick, featuring in two Top 10 booklists.

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Megan Rix meets and finds out all about the elephants at Woburn Safari Park – from what they eat to the noises they make to communicate with each other (via The Guardian website).

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Megan Rix's Top 10 Wartime Animal Books – The Guardian

From War Horse to Voytek The Bear, Megan Rix picks the animal heroes of wars through the ages – to coincide with the publication of her middle grade novel, The Great Escape.

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Congratulations Megan Rix, shortlisted for the Red House Children’s Book Award 2015 alongside Pamela Butchart and David Walliams with her historical novel, The Bomber Dog (Puffin). See the full shortlist on the BBC News website.

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Megan Rix on tour to mark the publication of The Paw House (Puffin Books)

Hamish’s summer isn’t going as planned. First, his parents left him to go on a business trip to Japan, and now he’s found himself stuck in the Scottish highlands with an aunt he's never met, a grumpy girl called Izzy, and a lot of animals. He's never even stroked a dog - what on earth is he supposed to do in an animal sanctuary?

Before long Hamish finds himself taking the dogs for walks, adopting a piglet, even rescuing a tiny puppy in the dead of night. But something's not right: Aunt Helen is worried about the future of the sanctuary, and with more animals in need arriving every day, something's got to be done before they lose their home forever.

With the help of some unexpected new friends, can Hamish save the animals and turn the fate of the Paw House around?

"Every now and then a writer comes along with a unique way of storytelling. Meet Megan Rix ... her novels are deeply moving and will strike a chord with animal lovers.” – LoveReading

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Megan Rix blogs for Deaf Awareness Week about her book Echo Come Home and about her own childhood hearing loss.

“This year’s Deaf Awareness Week was focussed on not letting anything stop you from doing what you want to do and called ‘I Definitely Can’. I hope nothing stops you from ever reaching your goals, because anything’s possible.” – Megan Rix