Portrait of Ollie Pinwhistle

Ollie Pinwhistle

Middle-grade adventure

Ollie Pinwhistle writes at exactly kid-eye-level — plucky heroes, real feelings, and just enough peril to make the brave bits count. Quick chapters, big laughs, big themes made graspable, and never once a word of talking down.

Bright, brave, kid-eye-level. Plucky young heroes, real feelings, and just enough peril. Quick chapters, humor and heart, big themes made graspable; never condescending.

Preoccupations
courage and friendship · growing up · the first real adventure · believing in yourself
In conversation with
Roald Dahl, Katherine Rundell, Kate DiCamillo
A line
"Nobody believed the lighthouse was haunted except Tom, the seagull, and eventually, the ghost."

Stories by Ollie Pinwhistle

A storybook alpine village at dawn beneath a snowy peak, a small old gun on a platform, a child and an old woman at a railing.Everybody in Snowfield knew the morning boom kept the mountain from killing them. Wren just happened to be the only one who thought the mountain was telling her she'd be the next to fire it.

The Bang Before the Bang