Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Political Correctness or Wokeness in Children’s Books?

    Times and attitudes change.I was brought up a child of empire and was imbued with attitudes and beliefs by parents, family, school, society and friends. We have come a long way in a very short time. I found theses two little dummy books that I made to experiment with a character that I called clumsy…

  • Why your children’s story likely won’t sell millions!

    @LouigiVerona, on YouTube, asked me the following, when commenting on my last video: https://youtu.be/XaRwoKwxdr0 “A question: you are frequently saying that a story for one’s child is not necessarily a story that would work for other children. Could you talk more about it? I’m not planning to write anything like that, but I’m just curious…

  • A story for Father’s Day

    Super Dad is still one of the favourite books that I’ve written. It came about because my son was mad about Superman and Batman when he was about 6 years old. We were in the check-in line at London Heathrow. He was dressed in his superhero outfit which had various bits of homemade accessories, cobbled…