OFFBEAT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME

Hello!

I’m resuming the publication of children’s books, which I hope will entertain and stir the imagination! Just out with Smashwords is CLUMSILLA’S FLIGHT THROUGH TIME and TAMING OF THE TOKHASHI – two stories that whisk children from their everyday lives to lands of fluctuating dangers and delights.

Clumsilla is an ungainly girl whose life is transformed when she meets Zigana, a celestial gipsy enabling travel through time and who has Clumsilla wishing her way to past and future on the fading family hearthrug (no magic carpet here!) Clumsilla arrives in the Land of Legend and Lost Moments where she finds Shirin and Laila; Persian princesses,  the quarrelsome giants,  Brawn and Scrawn, Beldina the witch with Bast, her cat and Huff, a dragon who fails to breathe fire. They all end up in the future and a smouldering community of Wolgs – fiendish fiery beings, from whom they narrowly escape.

TAMING OF THE TOKHASHI is another adventure through  time, visiting a Far East transformed by a magical force of nature and the threat of the monster, Tokhashi. Topsy and Turvy are conjured from the evil pot of Zazhak – an unsavoury being who wants them to fetch him the Tokhashi from the Mountains of Mishap and Gloom. But he does not reckon with Viana, a kindly earth spirit who protects the children from disaster, as they move through strange encounters with a phoenix, a resurrected prince and princess, a lost Indian elephant and a selection of unruly nature gods.