Sam Hay

About The Author

Sam has written more than thirty books including the UNDEAD PETS series published by Stripes, the STELLA & THE NIGHT SPRITES series published by Scholastic Branches, the SCREAMING SANDS trilogy published by Catnip, picture book DO NOT WASH THIS BEAR published by Egmont, and BUMBLE THE BRAVE KITTEN published by Macmillan. Sam was longlisted for the UKLA award for her 2009 novel BILLY ANGEL, published by A&C Black/Bloomsbury. Sam’s picture book STAR IN THE JAR, illustrated by Sarah Massini, published in January 2018.

Sam is a passionate advocate of improving literacy in schools. She runs several book groups for primary school children, challenging, inspiring and supporting creative writing and a love of reading.

Books by Sam Hay

A Cat's Christmas Carol
By Sam Hay and Helen Shoesmith
It’s Christmas Eve and all the staff in the department store are on their way home for Christmas. All except one . . . Clawdia, the department store’s security cat! She doesn’t see the point in silly festive celebrations and would much rather prowl the corridors making sure everything is in order...
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A Very Corgi Christmas
By Sam Hay
Illustrated by Loretta Schauer
Wrap up warm and join little corgis Belle and Pip on a Christmas adventure in London!

Belle LOVES the bustle of Christmas preparations at Buckingham Palace, but her family say she's in the way, and that Christmas is NOT for corgis! So Belle decides to slip out a...
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