Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – Meadow Illustration

This is the illustration for the meadow in my story. It’s available from Amazon for the Kindle and next week the Print on Demand story and colouring in book should be available as well. Meanwhile there is a pdf on our website www.junagarhmedia.co.uk, for PCs, Mac and tablets that have a pdf reader installed.

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Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – I Need to Keep Promoting It

So here is another repetitive post I’m afraid. Please ignore if you have read it before. It is just to say that my new story, Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow is now available for Kindle on Amazon. It is also available from our website www.junagarhmedia.co.uk as a pdf that can be read on any PC, Mac or tablet that has a pdf reader. The Print on Demand version from Amazon should be available next week.

The synopsis:

Bea Bee is the most resourceful, hardest working and happiest bee living in a hive located in a beautiful meadow. One day she notices a new sign on the gate and goes back to the hive to get wise old bee to come to the gate with her and read the notice as she doesn’t understand all the words. The news is bad; the sign is for a planning application to build houses all over the meadow. Wise Old Bee suggests that only if a rare or endangered species is found in the meadow is there a chance that the meadow can be saved. Bea suggests a wild idea on how to save the meadow from this happening. If they don’t then they are going to have to move the hive.

Her plan is fairly simple. There are some red flowers down near the stream that produce some fairly sticky pollen on them and she thinks that if she disguises herself as a red bee people will believe that there is a new species of bee. At least it will give the bees time to find out if there is a rare or endangered species in the meadow. Time to tell the Queen about the problem and also a possible solution.

Bea tries out the deception on two young people camping in the meadow and they take several photographs that they load onto social media. Bea has started a series of events that she is unaware of.. Two teams are set up, some normal bees to keep a lookout on when visitors are coming and a “red” team to sow the story and keep each other from being caught.

Will Bea and her friends from the meadow find a way to save it?

This is a story that is meant to be read by a parent to a younger child or with a younger child and to be read by children themselves as they get older.

Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – Proofs Ordered

I have today ordered the proofs of the story so it should be available as Print on Demand as well the Kindle app and tablet. Later today I will load the pdf version onto our website Junagarh Media

I hope that some of you like the story I will be giving a percentage of earnings away to any good causes that buyers request.

Seahorse – Cartajena, Colombia

We took this photograph on our first visit to Colombia. Cartagena, in Colombia, is a World Heritage site and this is clearly visible in the old centre. Buildings have been restored with great attention to details as is demonstrated by this beautiful seahorse adorning an otherwise simple door. Copyright Paul Andrews and Caroline Schmutz, Junagarh Media.

You can buy this photograph in various sizes and formats from our website Junagarh Media

Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – conversion to pdf and Print on Demand

Hopefully, we will finish these two versions today. Then we can order a proof of the Print on Demand and then make it available on Amazon.

Published – Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow

After completely reading through the story twice today and making all the editing changes I have at last loaded up the kindle version onto the Amazon KDP platform. Now for the pdf and Print on Demand versions.

Clever Dad and the Space Rocket

This is a story I wrote and published in 2018 for children between 4 and 8 years old. It is available on the Kindle and devices that run the Kindle app. It is also available as an A4 story and colouring in Print on Demand book from Amazon. In the Print on Demand version and also the pdf available from  Junagarh Media  for PCs/MACs and tablets that can read pdf files all the illustrations are repeated at the end of the book for colouring in.

This is the synopsis:

Read all about how Clever Dad builds his son Tristan a rocket that he soon finds himself blasting off in, on a journey to the moon. His adventure is aided by the ship’s computer who teaches Tristan some facts about space travel and informs him of the mission to survey the moon for possible landing sites.

They discuss whether the moon is made of cheese because back home there is a cheese shortage as some of the cows seem to have gone missing. On the way to the moon they overtake a cow and find out why, as in the old nursery rhyme, it decided to jump over the moon.

The cow was not alone and Tristan and the rocket’s computer discover that none of the cows that decide to jump ever come back. Tristan decides with the help of the computer to find out why the cows are mysteriously disappearing.

Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – a work in progress

Today I am working again on my story about bees and how they need to stop their home being built over with houses. I really want to publish this soon.

Brown Bear’s Big Day Out

This is the second story that I published with the KDP platform. It is available for Kindle and devices running the Kindle application. It is also available for PCs/MACs and tablet with a pdf reader from Junagarh Media.

This is the synopsis of the story:

Basil the brown bear has a dream; he wants to go Dizzyland, an amusement park that he has read about in the newspaper. Getting there will be difficult as getting out of the zoo will not be the easiest of things to do. What he needs is a disguise so that people do not recognise him as a bear but as a person.

An idea springs to mind one day when a hat is blown into his cage. All he needs are some other items and what comes along next is just what he needs. It is the facemask of a famous person. The only problem is that he has to cut the nose of the mask off; otherwise it will not fit over his big nose. All set, one day he borrows his keeper’s coat and makes his way out into the world beyond the zoo.

It is a strange place, made even more so by the fact that most of the people do not seem to understand his English which he has practised speaking for many years. And the fact that people keep recognising him as someone famous, but keep thinking that the nose is wrong. Some of them find his paws hairy but this does not stop him from searching for the magical Dizzyland.

 

 

First book that I published – Clever Dad and the Pirate Ship

Clever Dad and the Pirate Ship was the first of my books that I published with the Amazon KDP platform.

The story:

Clever Dad builds a pirate ship, so that his son Tristan can sail the seven seas on the promise that he will be a good pirate. Tristan is captivated once the ship is complete and his father starts to tell him a story but he, using his imagination drifts off in his own tale of the high seas.

Once sailing along he meets different characters, the first of which is the Easterly wind that suggests he goes to Polysneezia, a pleasant island that the wind will help him reach.

He lets the wind take him in the direction of the island and he relaxes until he meets a group of flying fish who tell him not to go there because of pirates digging for treasure. He is told that they are digging so many holes that the island might sink. Horrified, he asks the advice of the Easterly wind and decides that he must try to help even though has been warned by the flying fishes.

Tristan encounters other characters on his way to Polysneezia that give him their opinion on whether to continue or not. Knowing that the island is in trouble he presses on determined to help. Will Tristan be able to save the island from the dastardly pirates.

Available from Amazon for the Kindle and devices that run the application. Also available from them as an A4 story and colouring in book. A pdf version is available for PCs/MACs and tablets with a pdf reader from Junagarh Media