'Grandma's Magical Pottery Shop' is written by me. I was inspired by my time working in a pottery painting studio, painting my own pots as well as seeing the wonderful creations customers made too. I love the look of glazes and sculptural, 3D work, and having grown up in Staffordshire, visiting the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent as a child, I was motivated to write a story around pottery & clay.

The story revolves around Agnes’ pottery magical pottery shop, which she takes her grandaughter Enid to visit. While Enid is enamoured, her Grandma makes her a little clay friend, molding him as he comes to life in front of her eyes. Enid is captivated, and jumps into making her own clay friends, of which she makes Mouse.

Clay is careful, tidy and considerate, just like Agnes is in her treasured pottery shop; Mouse, however, is reckless, childish and careless, just like Enid when she discovers the magic of the shop. The story then follows Mouse’s rampant antics in the shop, while Clay & Agnes run around to stop him, and Enid endlessly creates more and more clay creatures that follow Mouse’s example, & chaos ensues.