Many children love horror stories, the scarier the better. Folk tales in all cultures deal with scary subjects. One of the most familiar source of scary stories are the Grimm Brothers who in their Fairy tales managed to bring out many of the subconscious fears of children to the foreground. Children’s fear of abandonment by […]
The story of a special and different Grandma was in my “ideas” file for a long time. I would go back to it every now and then, tweak it here, tweak it there and then would leave it to move to something else. The book came to life again when we were moving to our […]
When my youngest daughter was 4 years old she hugely enjoyed helping her Christian friends decorate the Christmas tree and color the Easter eggs. One day she insisted that we put up our own Christmas tree. Thoughts raced in my mind. What harm would there be to decorate a tree. We even had the perfect […]
Vrooooooooom! Vrooom! shouted Tarek while running around the house with outstretched arms. “I am an airplane! Vrooooooooom! Vrooom!” We all remember similar anecdotes in our children’s lives. Sometimes we would think our children’s role play is funny and amusing; while other times we would complain about how noisy undisciplined our children are and get angry […]
I have been writing for children for a long time now. People ask me why I write for children. I have been doing it for so long that it has become who I am and I have to stop and think how I first got interested in books and stories. As a child I was […]
The first series of books I wrote was “Best Friends’ series” which consisted of 12 story books. This was in the late 80’s early 90’s. I wrote the books while teaching the first grade in a local private school (ANS). Every couple of weeks I would illustrate a story in coloring book style and print […]
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