Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came is much more than a story from the animals’ point of view. It’s also “a story to save the Earth“! How does one story save the Earth, you ask? The story itself is about an increasingly concerning environmental issue – humans ‘developing’ land where wild animals live.
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Books are wonderful. They allow you to lose yourself in another world. What if there was a book which not only transported you to another part of the universe, but in which you must crack a code along the way? The Space Hamster and the Universal Code, standalone sequel to Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien
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Towel Day? Towel Day is a fun day celebrated annually on May 25th, when fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams go around all day with a towel. Why? Because a towel is listed as one of the essential and most useful items to have with you when hitchhiking around the
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While everyone’s doing home-schooling during lockdown, I thought it might be a nice gesture to offer you my Science Fiction eBook, Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves, for free, via Kindle Unlimited. Like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids! Readers will love the “myriad of alien cultures”, and the “unique take on the humans
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February 2nd, 2020 is a palindrome. A palindrome is “a word, phrase or number which is read the same forwards as backwards.” Words like ‘radar’ or ‘madam’ are palindromes. As are numbers like 4224 or 10001. Back to today’s date: 02-02-2020. Beautifully symmetrical! In fact, it’s the first time in over 900 years that a
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The Space Hamster and the Universal Code A Galaxy-Spanning Adventure with Ilnoblet Elmer… Get ready for a wonderfully weird trip to places in the universe you didn’t know existed! If Douglas Adams had written The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids, it might go like this… When Ilnoblet Elmer discovers his new headteacher is
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My Nature Conservation novel aimed at middle grade children, teens and young adults, ‘Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came‘, was recently reviewed by Education Otherwise, a major home education organisation in the UK. Kerri, the EO book reviewer, wrote: “‘Animals in the Forest’ is an absolute pleasure to read due to the superb descriptive detail and
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UPDATE June 2018: ‘The Zoo Animals’ Faraway Dream‘ has been published! Find out more here. If you or your kids are into reading about the natural environment, green issues, ecology, animals or saving the planet, then my next book, ‘The Zoo Animals’ Faraway Dream‘ is for you! It’s a story about living behind bars, told
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OnlineBookClub.org has published their official review of ‘Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves‘, rating it 4 out of 4 stars: “Children’s literature that makes learning fun is always a joy to read. Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves by Kathryn Rose Newey is one such joy… This adventure story is fit for both kids and
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UPDATE May 2018: I’m offering more Kids’ Writing Workshops at Waterstones Hatfield, Waterstones Welwyn Garden City, and Harpenden Books during May Half-Term (28th-31st May 2018). Contact the stores to book your place! UPDATE April 2018! The 2pm-3pm workshop on Monday 9 April 2018 is now fully booked, so we’ve added a second workshop at 11am-12noon. Hurry
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