A kick takes on a life of its own in the kids’ book, ‘When Tad Kicked Vlad’

Illustrations copyright © Ross Collins 2026/Courtesy of Faber & Faber

Author Julian Gough was giving a talk to children one day when they gave him the best gift an author can get: an idea.

“I was telling them how you make up stories and how you invent stories,” Gough remembers. “What makes a story a story? You have to have stuff happen and then the stuff that happens has to have consequences.”

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