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been in a bookstore or in any type of bookshop;

there is a reason for this.

We must go back to when I first went to Brazil. The

year was 1990 and I had been offered a job to

create and lead a new publishing company in South

America. This was a big adventure and I

approached it with a great deal of enthusiasm.

However, it was not to be an easy journey for me

and although the publishing house was based in

England with offices all over the world and a list of

2000 titles: The British publishing company

specialised in educational books and in particular

reference books and had no children’s story titles

in their catalogue. They did have children’s books

in a variety of series, but they were focused on

helping a young person to face the problems that

family life can give; for example, the death of a

relative the death of a pet, divorce, bullying, love,

hate and jealousy. They had no fictional stories.

All through the 1980s I had worked in education.

At the age of 41 I gained my Batchelor of Education

and my Teaching Certificate of Higher Education

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