I'm very pleased to announce the birth of my new book. Or rather the arrival of 34 pupils, 2 part-time teachers, a supply teacher, a teaching assistant - and a very clever class hamster. The book has received some lovely reviews including this Guardian quote from Imogen Russell Williams... Rooney evokes children’s perspectives with empathy: we meet a boy whose “legs don’t walk so he wheels in his chair instead. / And he runs in his head”, and a sufferer from early lovesicknes