Welcome to my website. Here you can find out about me, my books, my poems... and what Fletcher has been up to since his last book in some pages from his diary. I hope you enjoy the site!

LATEST NEWS​
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Woohoo! The Fletcher's Four Seasons books, illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke, are going to be re-published in the UK by Graffeg Books. Fletcher and the Springtime Blossom and Fletcher and the Summer Show will be published in April 2020. Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and Fletcher and the Snowflake Christmas will follow in the autumn. You can read the full announcement here. 

My picture book Sweet Dreaming, illustrated by Nicole Wong and published by Sourcebooks, is out now. Kirkus Review wrote, "this tender nighttime story will safely soothe readers to dreamy bliss." See the full review here.

There are now eight titles available in my One Week of Poems series of short poetry eBooks - perfect for a quick poetry fix. The books are:
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One Week of Christmas Poems  (Amazon UK / US)
One Week of Dinosaur Poems   (Amazon UK / US)
One Week of Nature Poems   (Amazon UK / US)
One Week of Space Poems   (Amazon UK / US)
One Week of Football Poems   (Amazon UK / US)
 One Week of Spooky Poems   (Amazon UK / US)
One Week of Seaside Poems  (Amazon UK / US)
One Week of Pirate Poems (Amazon UK / US).

The first six books are also brought together in the One Week of Poems Omnibus (Amazon UK / US).

I'm loving working with Working Partners on Mio and the Mermaids, a chapter book series for the Japanese market illustrated by TaniTomo. Book 6 was published in December 2019, Book 7 will be out in June 2020 and I am looking forward to writing Book 8.

My poem Mix-up at the Zoo is included in the Bloomsbury anthology I am a Jigsaw, and my poem Good Moon, Bad Moon is in the Otter-Barry Books anthology Moonstruck!