The Chocolate Box Girls: Sweet Honey Award-winning author by Cathy Cassidy (author)

Author/Illustrator

Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy’s stirring teen novels have a huge following. Their optimism, realism and empathy explain their popularity, especially with girls, and are perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.

More about Cathy: “I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know!). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too – pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I’d sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else,they didn’t have photocopiers back then!

I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine. Later, I married my boyfriend Liam, went back to college and trained to be an art teacher. I taught in a Coventry secondary school for a few years, which I loved, then moved to Scotland with Liam to start a family.

My kids are 13 and 14 years old now, and the four of us live in a cottage in the Galloway hills with sheep and cows for neighbours. As well as writing books, I am the agony aunt on Shout magazine and sometimes teach art in the local primary schools, which is great fun and keeps me sane. (Well, maybe!)

I’ve been veggie for 30 years, and was vegan for 8 of them – a chocolate-eating vegan, like Storm! I love old clothes, old toys, cars, books. We have three cats, two rabbits and a mad, hairy lurcher called Kelpie (the model for Leggit in my book Dizzy).

I love my family, I love living in the middle of nowhere and I love my work. Of all my jobs, writing has to be the best – it’s the perfect excuse to daydream, after all!”

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1. Idunno
   on 13 May 2019

   I Love Cathy Cassidy.This is a awesome book.I have the whole series. I also love ‘Summers Dream’ and ‘Cherry Crush’.They’re also by Cathy Cassidy.

2. lollypop4eva
   on 10 January 2016

   i read the whole book in the series you should all read it if u haven’t cause …................... ITS AMAZABALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   5out of 5

3. sinister50clever
   on 14 November 2015

   This book is amazing but will Honey find her good side! Hope you enjoy it!

   5out of 5

4. book0candy0
   on 25 August 2015

   This book is really good as it gave me different emotions. :)

   5out of 5

5. aisha1413
   on 25 April 2015

   This book is flippin amazing . I loved it so much. One of me faves book. Read it its amazinngggggggggg

   5out of 5

6. tomgates27
   on 27 June 2014

   i read this whole book in a day because it is to hard to put down. well done cathy

   5out of 5

7. nastyboots
   on 24 May 2014

   this was a really good book that shows a completely different side to this bad rebel girl. i think this book is 4 out of 5 mainly because there were some bits that puzzled me.

   4out of 5