The Golden Book of Bright Ideas, Surprising Stories and Imagination

By Meltham Kids

This is a collection of short, illustrated stories by a group of talented and creative Meltham children, that varies so wildly, it will leave you wondering how they all started with the same brief!
Over the space of eight weeks, working through the various elements of story writing, our intrepid new authors wrote under the guidance of author Martin Rothery to produce this, their first entertaining published piece of work.
A strictly limited publication, only the people involved in the project have copies of this book making it extremely rare.
So hold on to your precious copy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fishcake Publications
• Release date: Feb 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370978618

Meltham Kids

This project started in back at the beginning of 2017 after a conversation with Eva O’Donovan from the Friends of Meltham Library. I am always keen to get children interested in writing and I needed somewhere that was willing to provide a place for me to do it.The Carlile Institute, Meltham was also having a renaissance at the time and was reinventing itself into a community hub and the new location for Meltham library.So, we thought, what a great opportunity to get the local children interested in visiting their new library and maybe creating something special along the way.We didn’t know what response we were going to have, but we kept our fingers crossed and then September came around...We were amazed, at that first workshop, to meet a group of youngsters from 5-10 years old that were enthusiastic, creative, excited and very entertaining.Over the next few weeks, through a creative process of drafting and illustrating, they produced a collection of short, illustrated stories all from their own imagination. This book is the product of all that hard work.These youngsters have never been published before, never even written for a book before, but now they can hold their heads up proud and say, ‘I am a published author!’ Well done to you all.I was very proud to be a part of this collaboration and I hope all the children featured here go on and do well in the future – maybe we will have a future novelist among them, who knows.Keep on writing guys!All the Best,Martin Rothery.Editor & Author, Fishcake Publications.

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By

Fishcake Publications

In association with:

Kirklees Libraries

&

Meltham Carlile Community Hub

The Golden Book of Bright Ideas, Surprising Stories and Imagination

Published by Fishcakes Publications

Huddersfield

www.fishcakepublications.com

Smashwords Edition

© The Wicked Meltham Shark-like Fox Dabber Dream Writers (as individually named in the book) 2017

All Rights Reserved.

First Edition Published in Great Britain in 2017.

Title, character and place names are all protected by the applicable laws. This book is a work of fiction, therefore names, characters and events are fictitious and any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead, or any actual event is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission from copyright owners.

Introduction

This project started in back at the beginning of 2017 after a conversation with Eva O’Donovan from the Friends of Meltham Library. I am always keen to get children interested in writing and I needed somewhere that was willing to provide a place for me to do it.

The Carlile Institute, Meltham was also having a renaissance at the time and was reinventing itself into a community hub and the new location for Meltham library.

So, we thought, what a great opportunity to get the local children interested in visiting their new library and maybe creating something special along the way.

So we put out this poster…

We didn’t know what response we were going to have, but we kept our fingers crossed…and then September