I was childishly pleased when I came up with the series title, Little Horrors. They’re horror stories for small children, whom we often call little horrors themselves. Actually there’s no horror in them at all, just the suggestion. They are meant to be funny with moments of doubt… Shiver with fear.. shake with laughter, as the series slogan goes!
I love reading these stories to Key Stage 1 children. Some hug each other, some pose and pretend they aren’t scared, some burst into tears, but most laugh and join in with the noises and actions. Sadly the publishers, Orchard Books decided not to reprint. But that gave me the opportunity to bring the stories back to life again.
Online, print-on-demand publishing is an amazing thing. The first book in the series, The Swamp Man in now available in old fashioned print and as an ebook for the iPad. When I discovered the Open Dyslexic Font, I made it available as a Dyslexic font edition on the ipad too. The type is weighted so the letters behave themselves and sit on the line and the page colour is cream.
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The Swamp Man – Little Horrors book.
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I will be at Carfest North at Oulton Park on the 2nd 3rd and 4th August showing you how to draw all sorts of things and demonstrating some of the fantastic of art materials at the Derwent Pencils tent. Come along and have some fun! To get myself in the mood I’m doing car drawings and this is the first – a beach buggy like what the Monkeys and other hippy types drove around in in the 1960s and 70s. I put flowers on it to make it look a little bit Flower Power!![RoyalBabyClothes](<a href="http://http://shoorayner.spreadshirt.co.uk/royalbaby-I15707286"><img src="https://www.shoorayner.com/wp-images/uploads/2013/07/RoyalBabyClothes.png" alt="RoyalBabyClothes" width="269" height="265" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7365" /></a>)