Three Books For Children
The Lost and Found series is all about children who lose someone close to them, but find someone else; someone who was always there, someone who will love them and look after them in ways they couldn't have imagined.
Wipe Out
Eleven-year-old Billy's mother has just died. Billy's father isn't coping too well so Billy goes to stay with his dull Auntie Mary. The death of his mother has taken all the colour away from Billy's world. He sees his Auntie Mary as a grey person, whose dull blue house is shrouded in fog. Billy feels foggy and dull, too, and longs for the colour to return to his life. His mother was a well-known surfer – Kitten Brown – and the author has woven into this novel the buzzing vibes of the surfing world. Waves, movement, colour, VW combis, Cornwall, surfing songs – described through Billy's dreams as he sleeps away his grief. For though Billy's mother is dead, her joyful personality pervades the whole story as Billy, Auntie Mary and Billy's dad all attempt to deal with their grief.
To order Wipe Out, click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wipe-Out-Mimi-Thebo/dp/0007142773
To order Wipe Out, click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wipe-Out-Mimi-Thebo/dp/0007142773
Hit The Road, Jack
Jack is determined to find his missing father. He tracks him down to the seamy side of town and an underworld that has no place in modern society. A second thought-provoking book from this lively new author.
A wonderfully original story to follow this author’s debut as a children’s author with Wipe Out. As in Wipe Out, the book follows a child through a difficult journey but humour and hope spreads through the novel, giving it that feel-good factor at the end.
Jack decides to track down his father when his mother announces she is to re-marry. Jack is a bit of a geek – he’s a whizz-kid into nutritional values of food and goes to a school for gifted children. It’s this that introduces the element of humour to the novel, through his friendships at school with other equally gifted kids.
During Jack’s search, he befriends a homeless Big Issue seller, plus dog, and a Black soul singer and soul music is a feature of the novel. The two men try to dissuade Jack from finding his father, since they know he lives with the a ‘no-good bunch of hobos’ who live on the streets, funded by crime and even child abuse.
To order Hit The Road, Jack, click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hit-Road-Jack-Mimi-Thebo/dp/000714279X/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317733198&sr=1-7
A wonderfully original story to follow this author’s debut as a children’s author with Wipe Out. As in Wipe Out, the book follows a child through a difficult journey but humour and hope spreads through the novel, giving it that feel-good factor at the end.
Jack decides to track down his father when his mother announces she is to re-marry. Jack is a bit of a geek – he’s a whizz-kid into nutritional values of food and goes to a school for gifted children. It’s this that introduces the element of humour to the novel, through his friendships at school with other equally gifted kids.
During Jack’s search, he befriends a homeless Big Issue seller, plus dog, and a Black soul singer and soul music is a feature of the novel. The two men try to dissuade Jack from finding his father, since they know he lives with the a ‘no-good bunch of hobos’ who live on the streets, funded by crime and even child abuse.
To order Hit The Road, Jack, click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hit-Road-Jack-Mimi-Thebo/dp/000714279X/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317733198&sr=1-7
Get Real
Artie has everything a boy could possibly want. But beneath the surface, his “perfect” world is actually falling apart.
GET REAL is a novel about a boy discovering the really important things in life – and teaching everyone around him as he learns.
Artie has everything. His parents are making a serious fortune for themselves as sports agents, they’ve got a dream house with every kind of toy and gizmo a kid could ever desire, and Artie and his younger brother and sister go to glamorous parties every weekend in designer clothes, where they hang out with sporting celebrities… Oh, and did I mention Artie’s own phenomenal football ability? He’s already got some premiership talent scouts watching him.
In spite of all this, Artie’s miserable. Why? Well, he hardly sees his successful parents, never gets to spend much time in their dream home and he and his best mate, Matt, aren’t getting on so well. In fact, having school days with Matt and weekends with his parents is like living in two separate worlds. Grandad is the only thing that holds these worlds together. But Grandad’s loopiness is getting worse. And only Artie knows it… To order Get Real, click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Real-Mimi-Thebo/dp/0007142811/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317733198&sr=1-8
GET REAL is a novel about a boy discovering the really important things in life – and teaching everyone around him as he learns.
Artie has everything. His parents are making a serious fortune for themselves as sports agents, they’ve got a dream house with every kind of toy and gizmo a kid could ever desire, and Artie and his younger brother and sister go to glamorous parties every weekend in designer clothes, where they hang out with sporting celebrities… Oh, and did I mention Artie’s own phenomenal football ability? He’s already got some premiership talent scouts watching him.
In spite of all this, Artie’s miserable. Why? Well, he hardly sees his successful parents, never gets to spend much time in their dream home and he and his best mate, Matt, aren’t getting on so well. In fact, having school days with Matt and weekends with his parents is like living in two separate worlds. Grandad is the only thing that holds these worlds together. But Grandad’s loopiness is getting worse. And only Artie knows it… To order Get Real, click here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Real-Mimi-Thebo/dp/0007142811/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317733198&sr=1-8
