Description

 

Redhair and Daffodil Friend – a tale about friendship, loyalty and minding your own business

• beautiful full-colour illustrations by the award-winning illustrator Fruzsina Czech.
• will make a perfect gift for lovers of folk and fairytales.
• written for the enjoyment of adults and young people.
• explores rites of passage blending familiar traditional fairy tale tropes within recognisable industrial and coastal landscapes merging traditional folk culture with themes of citizenship and climate responsibility.
• concerns sisterhood and working motherhood. The sisters Redhair and Daffodil Friend are the daughters of the accomplished female engineer, Sea Potato Mam, Governor of Brinepoint.
• contains themes of absent parents, adoption and coping with family illness.
• will stir up discussion about climate, greed, fairness and citizenship.
• will provide scope for creative explorations and responses through drama, storytelling, art and music.
• will be a rich source for creative project work in the classroom.

What readers have said:

• “It is a joy.”
• “I bought this for my Grand Daughter but couldn’t resist a quick look and ended up reading it all. It’s a delightful tale that incorporates some very important “life lessons” to help the young reader navigate their own life going forward. Congratulations to the author for a first book that does more than just help the reader pass the time by reading a story, it’s much more than that! ” (Amazon review)
• “A lovely book with a mix of realism and folktale ‘magic’. Beautifully presented and illustrated. The themes are very relevant for our world in 21C. The characters are delightful. ” (Waterstones review)
• “Its gentle irony and structure really appealed to me and will, I am sure, do so to younger readers. Your use of language is extending with a contextual clarification…. It’s a pleasing item to hold never mind read. “
• “It is a thing of beauty.”