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MEET
Grandad Wheels
AN HORRIFIC ACCIDENT BROUGHT ABOUT A ‘FUN’
HCAREER CHANGE
book. So, after a long search, I found an illustrator and we produced a beautifully illustrated children’s book about the adventures of a daft, wheelchair-using grandad and his grandson. And then I wrote some more! Whilst the stories are of course designed to make children laugh, they also aim to show the reader that being in a wheelchair is no barrier to having fun or being fun.
When I started out on this journey, I had no idea if there would be any
i! My name is Brian Abram, age 65 from Halifax. In 2013, I (just) survived an horrific
cycling accident that left me a T9 complete paraplegic and a full- time wheelchair user. Retired and with time on my hands, a couple of years later I started writing stories to amuse my grandson who was just 6 months old at the time of the accident.
I was encouraged by friends and family to turn this first story into a
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