As A Young Child My

Animals Are Sentient, Intelligent, Perceptive, Funny And Entertaining. We Owe Them A Duty Of Care As We Do To Children.

I Think People Are More In Contact Now With The Consequences Of War Than They've Been For A Very Long Time. And That's What Amazes Me When Sometimes Politicians Seem To Forget Their History. They Don't Look And Re-learn About What Has Happened Before. Maybe They Haven't Got The Memory, Maybe They're Already Too Young, But You Can See How We Become Puffed Up, And How We As A Nation Rise So Quickly If We're Not Careful.

We Have Bodies Coming Home And Coffins Covered In Flags, Not Just In The Uk But World-wide.

For Me,the Greater Part Of Writing Is Daydreaming, Dreaming The Dream Of My Story Until It Hatches Out-the Writing Down Of It I Always Find Hard.but I Love Finishing It,then Holding The Book In My Hand And Sharing My Dream With My Readers.

Elephants Are My Favourite Creatures And Have Been Since I Was A Boy And My Mother Read Kipling's The Elephant's Child To Me. It Was Loving Elephants So Much That Made We Want To Write My Own Story With An Elephant At The Centre And Its Bond With A Child.