My Favourite Books as a Child

A special thank you to Georgia for asking me what my favouirite book was as a child.

When I was very little my mum used to read me lots of stories. I really liked the Railway Books - written by The Rev W Awdry - about Thomas the Tank Engine, James the Red Engine, Henry the Green Engine, and all the others. I especially liked the illustrations which were done by C. Reginald Dalby. In fact... I think I probably liked the pictures even more than the stories.

Another of my favourite books was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. I loved the idea of the little boy, Max, going on an adventure to a strange land. One of the things I love about books and stories is that they let us all go on adventures where we see new things and meet strange and interesting poeple. And we can do it anywhere and anytime we like. 

As I got a bit older I started to buy books with my pocket money. The first book I ever bought was Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. 

I still have the book today - and as you can see, it's looking a little bit tatty. 

Everyone has a favourite book... 

Which one is yours? 

What am I writing at the moment?

Hi everyone... if you leave a comment and ask a question, I will answer it in the comment section, but I think that it's a good idea if I put the question and answer here too - it makes it easir for everyone to see. 

Question – What are you writing at the moment and what your favourite story that you have written so far?

At the moment I'm working on a few different things - so I'm really busy. I'm doing some little picture book stories about young dinosaurs... There's Dino (Dee-No) he's a therapod (T.rex is a theropod too so you can imagine what he looks like - but he's cuter than a big T.rex), there's Steg (he's a Stegosaurus), there's Seren (she's a ceratopsian - like a Triceratops), and there are twins - Bella and Barap (they are sauropods - like Diplodocus).  

I'm also working on some comic book style stories with two dragon characters - they will have strange, funny and silly adventures. I've only just started to work on these, so I don't know a lot about them.

 And... I've just been asked to write a little version of Beauty and the Beast.

Saying which my books is my favourite is difficult... but right now I think that it is Global Heroes 'Arctic Adventure'. You might remember seeing a picture of the book cover when I was in school.

Great to Meet You All

Hi everyone... This is just a very quick message to say how fantastic it was to be able to spend the day with you all last week. I had a great time and I hope you did too. Thank you for joining in with the stories and rhymes and for asking such interesting questions.

And a special thank you for making me feel so welcome. 

I can't wait to hear from you and to share some reading ideas. 

I also just wanted to remind you that this is the part of my website where we can keep in touch. Do you like the way it looks or do you think I should change something?

Let me know if there is anything that you would like me to include here.

Right now I've got to get some writing done - but I'll be back soon.

Bye for now