This book is a collection of 16 silly short stories some for young children The Habba Balloon Men & Two teeth meets some new friends, whilst others are for older children. Each story is quite different from the other with two very short stories Welcome to Yalta & Who did you bite? written for competitions only using 150 words or by using 75% of the page The Lottery Ticket as the Brothers Grimm did with one of their stories. Two (How the Tiger got its spots & The Silent Witness) are an explanation of famous events viewed from a different perspective, whereas The Unhappy King, Mrs Lupinplod &...

World War III is just about to start, however a small international survey group working in a remote area of Persia have no idea of these unfolding cataclysmic events. Their world is rocked by the discovery of a gigantic anomaly which cannot be seen, only their state-of-the-art survey equipment can 'see' it. The question is: "What is being hidden behind the invisible cloaking device?" In such perilous times it could be anyone, even beings from outside of our dimension... Once they are permitted to enter this massive hidden area the team makes the discovery of the age, which causes some of the...

In many cultures the idea of a boy living on the moon who is fishing all the time is quite a common concept. This image of a crescent moon with a boy fishing off it has even made it into a film maker's trade mark. However, the question must be asked, "How did he get there and does he ever get bored?" The answers to these important questions are to be found in the starbrights. What are the starbrights? Glistening, glittering, sparkling shapes speak in squeaky voices to a boy when the sun shines on his local pond water. Will the Grandparents of the boy without a name believe him that the...

"Money doesn't grow on trees " is the popular phrase, but what if it did? What would you do if all you had to do was harvest a crop of coins by plucking them off a tree? Sanjay, a poor village boy in Nepal learns the secret of how to grow a money tree in the hidden valley. Ram Bahhadur, his Grandfather, wants to teach him a lesson, whilst Kunda, the village head elder wants to teach him other lessons to 'teach him a lesson ' Gopal, the goat herder only wants to beat him up and dangle Sanjay from the cliffs by his ankle. His school at Chomrung wants to teach him mathematics and all Sanjay ever...

The lands of the Nargal Noop and the Poon Lagarn are populated by two groups of silly dogs, very silly dogs. The Biannual possession of 'the Jewel' has been over stepped, by one month and now it looks like war. The only solution is to have a running race about the various weird lands of the Nargal Noop and the Poon Lagarn the winner of which keeps 'the Jewel'. Sounds simple doesn't it? Not when the two athletes chosen just happen to be the only sons of the two Kings of the land. Also, the different lands become increasingly weirder and have creatures in them that make Alice in Wonderland's...

Why Children's Poetry? Some of the poetry contained within this collection was directly inspired by the works of A. A. Milne and Spike Milligan; others just came unbidden. When writing children's poetry I am often in a mode of silliness, crazy mind pictures, the absurd or the down right ridiculous. I like the freeness of writing something that is not going to have a critique done to analyse the hidden meaning etc. behind the text. This poetry is unpretentious, it's straightforward, it celebrates the innocent time that we laughingly call nowadays, "Childhood." It is my belief that children in...

Why Christian Poetry? When a heart is touched by the events of life, for example, discovering the Saviour, being suddenly aware, conscious of the weight and significance of one's sin; those situations cause a response. This, 'response', can take many forms, if, by consequence, you are, like me a poet (or even if not) it seems that writing poetry is a channel of expression, a form of written therapy, self expression which has to be employed. It is akin to squeezing an orange - meaning it doesn't matter where you squeeze the orange, a spray of orange juice leeks out; the fragrance, of which,...

Why the title 'Poetry of Otherness'? Well, having perused the sum total of my work I noticed that there was a vast collection of poems which I could only classify as 'Other'. Consequently, the poetry within this volume covers a wide variety of subject matter. There are about 5 or 6 poems within this collection which after I had read them (for the first time in many years) I thought to myself, "Where on earth was my head when I wrote that poem?" So here it is the 'Off the Wall', strange, silly, obscure (I specialise in the obscure...), bizarre, odd, weird and wonderful and the down right...

Heaven's Letters is: An extraordinary collection of letters written directly from inside the realms of Heaven itself The end of this present Age is about to come; history, as we know it, is about to draw to a final conclusion. The 'Second Coming' is very shortly going to take place Have you ever wondered what Heaven is really like? What do Angels look like and what are their functions? What does Jesus Christ look like? What does God look like? What goes on in Heaven? What goes on in Hell? What do Demons look like? Can people have visions of Heaven? Can people be 'resurrected'? What about...

Elizabeth and Barnabas live in a time bubble with their Grandfather "Old Father Time" (who likes plastic ducks). They are sent on a mission for "The Boss" to the Blacksmith's Forge at the end of the "Multi-verse." Their Auntie "Mother Nature" arranges transport in the form of two Pegasus horses Jade and Javelin and a hybrid horse Blade (half Pegasus and half Unicorn). They are often in danger of being eaten by Shadow creatures, Leviathans and Griffins. Admiral Gravity (who is obsessed with eating Marshmallows), and Otto the auto pilot help them to escape the Forbidden Planet. Whilst at the...