This is Just Children's Tales From my Childhood My mum Used to Tell me Stories When I was a Child.

Nine-year-old Amy Winter's holiday plans have gone from exciting to total disaster. How is she supposed to have any fun being packed up and sent to stay with a weird relative she can't even remember? And Aunt Penelope is as weird as they get. With her tangerine curls and old-fashioned clothes, she looks like she came straight out of the old storybooks she collects. What type of person owns a two-story house with a face living on it? With doors that open and close on their own, and a staircase that never ends. Amy is turned upside down and inside out as she's thrown into a world where one's imagination holds all the power. Where Magic becomes part of her everyday life. One that includes a talking cat with a top hat and a Pixie King who believes she is a Storyteller. Forming true friendships with the most unlikely of creatures helps Amy understand that not everyone has to be her friend. And the friends she does have, are worth fighting for. Book 1 of the Storyteller Chronicles. Entry for Open Novella Contest 2022. Based on prompt #15-Being a single child has pros and cons. Being stuck with a weird elderly aunt for the holiday certainly counts among the latter. Or does it...?

[DRAFTING] COLLECTION Currently working on "Bee is Invisible" & "Mixie is Missing".📚 Mixie, the woodland fairy is late for Fairavan's Shimmer, the clan "Disappearance" from the botanical gardens, on the day that the gates suddenly open to the public for summer each year. Where can she hide? It will be months! Aided by the canine companion of a visiting boy, she must learn about the habits of humans and how not to be eaten by an arrogant lizard, while she tries to make the boy, Roland, see she is there; and have him help her get back to a place that she might not even belong anymore. ≈ A Fae Perspective short story for younger readers. Welcome :)

Short children's stories written by the winners of our writing contests.

Will there be a Unicorn? and Other Tales is a collection of short rhyming stories for kids which I'm updating as they come to me. The title story - Will there be a Unicorn? - has illustrations by the wonderful Sringkhala, more coming soon. One day I'd like to see it published as a picture book with really detailed, cute and funny illustrations. I imagine a unicorn on each of the early pages, out of sight of the protagonists but visible to the reader. Other stories include The Clever Young Witch and The Royal Pumpkin. #440 in Poetry 16th February 2017 #1 in Bedtime 5th January 2022