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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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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Nick Coffer interviewed me live on BBC Three Counties Radio about my nature conservation fiction / environmental fiction book ‘Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came‘ early in January 2018. Listen to the podcast of the interview on YouTube, or play it here: What exactly is ‘nature conservation fiction’ or ‘environmental fiction’? It’s a relatively
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Or more precisely, what do an illustration of Batman and the book cover for ‘Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves‘ have in common? Answer: Both have been drawn and designed by Jamie Ridge, who is currently an Art & Design student and aspiring illustrator! Jamie and other Art & Design students from Oaklands College in
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Thought I’d give you a head’s up – Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came (already available as Paperback and e-Book) is going to be made into an Audiobook. Once created, it will be available from Amazon and Audible.com. I’ve chosen an English native speaker to read the manuscript, in keeping with the
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My latest book, to be published soon, Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves, is a fun children’s science fiction story with a difference. Ilnoblet Elmer is an ordinary boy. Except for one thing. He’s from another planet – and his family, friends and teachers don’t know. The story follows his adventures trying to defeat tricky
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