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Thursday, September 29, 2022
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Turkish Editions: The Lost World and The Three Musketeers
Turkish Editions:
The Lost World and The Three Musketeers
Turkish Translations of my adaptations of "The Lost World" and "The Three Musketeers", originally published by Oxford University Press. Love the dinosaur!
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL!
Thursday, January 4, 2018
THE BIG PANCAKE
NEW BOOK FOR 2018
( Published Cambridge University Press, in collaboration with the UCL Institute of Education's International Literacy Centre).
The Cook is making the biggest pancake in the world. But it jumps out of the frying pan and rolls away.
But, as it escapes, it just can't help saving people's lives.
The Big Pancake turns out to be a big hero!
( Published Cambridge University Press, in collaboration with the UCL Institute of Education's International Literacy Centre).
The Cook is making the biggest pancake in the world. But it jumps out of the frying pan and rolls away.
But, as it escapes, it just can't help saving people's lives.
The Big Pancake turns out to be a big hero!
Thursday, January 12, 2017
THE CURSE OF THE CROCODILE KING
"THE CURSE OF THE CROCODILE KING"
(Book 2 in the "Artefact Inspector" series, published in UK by Tamarind Books)
'"A tall woman with an eye patch came striding in. She wore a headwrap and dress in sizzling colours: hot pink, flaming orange, scorching yellow. She lit up the bakery like a firework display.
"Hello Frankie," she said.
"Mizz Z!" gasped Frankie. "You've come back from Africa!"
Yes, Miss Zauyamakanda (otherwise known as Mizz Z), Chief Inspector and part-time football coach, is back in town!
In China Town to be specific, in a city in England. (Here's the gateway to Chinatown with the city football stadium in the background.)
Mizz Z has come to the Money Tree Bakery owned by Frankie's Auntie Tang, where Frankie is working to earn extra pocket money, selling cakes like these. Look out, in the book, for the pineapple bun!
In Book One, "Zilombo" published in UK by Tamarind Books (American Edition published by Lee and Low as "Monster in the Mudball") Mizz Z, Chief Inspector of Ancient Artefacts, along with Jin and his big sister Frankie, battled an ancient shape-shifting monster. Now Mizz Z is back, facing an even more formidable foe, the dreadful Avenger, once the most deadly weapon of a tyrant called the Crocodile King. And, this time, it's personal!
ONCE CURSED, YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD!
"No one the Crocodile King cursed EVER escaped Avenger," Mizz Z told Frankie. "You could run to the ends of the Earth, hide in the deepest caves, or on the highest mountains but Avenger never, ever gave up. It ALWAYS tracked you down. And it showed no mercy. It couldn't. Because it's just a machine with no feelings."
"It's a heap of junk!" said Jin.
"You're joking us!" scoffed Frankie.
"I do not joke," said Mizz Z, "about things like that. But it is perfectly harmless," insisted Mizz Z, "because it has lost its powers completely. Only the Crocodile King can activate it. And the Crocodile King has been dead for centuries. So it cannot happen."
But, for once, Mizz Z is WRONG! She and all her family are cursed by the Crocodile King who orders Avenger to hunt them down. Mizz Z finds herself tracked through the night-time city streets by the terrible Avenger. Somehow, Jin and Frankie must break the Crocodile King's curse, or the Chief Inspector herself will be Avenger's first victim.
Followed by her little brother Kapito (top computer game designer) who, with terrible timing, is flying into England from his home in America next morning!
Also in this story are:
To find out how they all fit in, read "The Curse of the Crocodile King"!
Click here to buy "Curse of the Crocodile King" on Amazon:
(Book 2 in the "Artefact Inspector" series, published in UK by Tamarind Books)
'"A tall woman with an eye patch came striding in. She wore a headwrap and dress in sizzling colours: hot pink, flaming orange, scorching yellow. She lit up the bakery like a firework display.
"Hello Frankie," she said.
"Mizz Z!" gasped Frankie. "You've come back from Africa!"
Yes, Miss Zauyamakanda (otherwise known as Mizz Z), Chief Inspector and part-time football coach, is back in town!
In China Town to be specific, in a city in England. (Here's the gateway to Chinatown with the city football stadium in the background.)
Mizz Z has come to the Money Tree Bakery owned by Frankie's Auntie Tang, where Frankie is working to earn extra pocket money, selling cakes like these. Look out, in the book, for the pineapple bun!
In Book One, "Zilombo" published in UK by Tamarind Books (American Edition published by Lee and Low as "Monster in the Mudball") Mizz Z, Chief Inspector of Ancient Artefacts, along with Jin and his big sister Frankie, battled an ancient shape-shifting monster. Now Mizz Z is back, facing an even more formidable foe, the dreadful Avenger, once the most deadly weapon of a tyrant called the Crocodile King. And, this time, it's personal!
ONCE CURSED, YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD!
"No one the Crocodile King cursed EVER escaped Avenger," Mizz Z told Frankie. "You could run to the ends of the Earth, hide in the deepest caves, or on the highest mountains but Avenger never, ever gave up. It ALWAYS tracked you down. And it showed no mercy. It couldn't. Because it's just a machine with no feelings."
"It's a heap of junk!" said Jin.
"You're joking us!" scoffed Frankie.
"I do not joke," said Mizz Z, "about things like that. But it is perfectly harmless," insisted Mizz Z, "because it has lost its powers completely. Only the Crocodile King can activate it. And the Crocodile King has been dead for centuries. So it cannot happen."
But, for once, Mizz Z is WRONG! She and all her family are cursed by the Crocodile King who orders Avenger to hunt them down. Mizz Z finds herself tracked through the night-time city streets by the terrible Avenger. Somehow, Jin and Frankie must break the Crocodile King's curse, or the Chief Inspector herself will be Avenger's first victim.
Followed by her little brother Kapito (top computer game designer) who, with terrible timing, is flying into England from his home in America next morning!
Also in this story are:
- An ancient and very temperamental bun steaming stove called The Iron Dragon, that drives Auntie Tang crazy.
- Jin's Dad,a tough rodent control technician (or rat killer), who is a legend in his own life time.
- A Giant African Pouched Rat( who can sniff out land mines) and is a hero back in Africa.
- A truly terrifying ghost dog called Darkness.
- And, I almost forgot, a public toilet in a baobab tree!
To find out how they all fit in, read "The Curse of the Crocodile King"!
Click here to buy "Curse of the Crocodile King" on Amazon:
Monday, July 11, 2016
ICARUS: an ancient Greek legend retold
My latest book, ICARUS, is a retelling of a legend from Ancient Greece.
Published by Oxford University Press
Illustrations by Joe Todd-Stanton
Click here to order on Amazon
Daedalus and Icarus are locked in a tower by evil King Midas. How can they get out? Daedalus is watching seagulls flying from the tower window and suddenly thinks of a brilliant but highly risky escape plan .......
Icarus trying out his new wings.
Icarus falling through the air. .
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Monday, October 5, 2015
Grandma and the Leopard
GRANDMA AND THE LEOPARD
NEW BOOK! PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2015
ILLUSTRATIONS BY GALIA BERNSTEIN
When Grandma was a little girl in Africa, she got chased and nearly eaten by a leopard! Ava hears Grandma's scary story and becomes terrified of leopards. She won't even go to school, even though there are no leopards where she lives, in case one leaps from a bush and eats her! How can big sister Elise and Grandma save the day?
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