How
did I get this lucky? I spend my days writing for kids! Does it get
any better than that? (Only if you add a palm-fringed beach or the
British Museum . . . and once in a while, I do.)
The art on the right (by the wonderful Bill Slavin) shows me with
some of my characters. Note please that no one is paying the slightest
attention to me. Well, that's how it is for a writer. You make up
characters, and then they develop lives of their own. They surprise
you. They amuse you. They begin to feel like your friends.
And somehow I have now written more than thirty-five
books (picture books, novels and graphic novels). Here are the two
newest and the most exciting to me!
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Arthur Who Wrote
Sherlock is a picture-book biography of Arthur Conan Doyle.
It tells how Arthur created the legendary character Sherlock
Holmes and how Sherlock became such an enormous success
that Arthur was soon looking for ways to stop the series, and
even put an end to the great detective himself! |
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My other new release is Cinderella
with Dogs! What would happen if, when Cinderella
was left home alone in the cinders, there was a mix-up with
the fairy godmother and a fairy DOGmother turned up instead?
With her own ideas about ballgowns, coaches and transport to
the palace? A doggish version of the classic fairy tale! |
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Linda Bailey, 2007
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