News

Daley B marches on! Just had some fantastic news from Walker Books. My much-loved picture book “You’re A Hero Daley B” – the first picture book to be illustrated by Axel Scheffler – has now clocked up over half a million sales! The rabbit with the identity crisis is now thirty years old but doesn’t…

Free stories

Stories here can be downloaded for free! First published by Ginn in 1995, Mark Two quickly became a literacy hour favourite in hundreds of schools. It’s the story of a boy who wants the latest in everything – until it looks like he will be replaced by the latest model too! Suitable for readers of…

Author visits

As well as being the author of over sixty books, I’ve been devoted to teaching all my life, qualifying in 1979 as a secondary English and Drama teacher and going on to teach at every level of the education system. Since becoming a published author in 1984 I have visited hundreds (if not thousands!) of…