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The Girl in the

Mirror: Isobel’s

Dream

James Walker

KEY SELLING POINTS

A collection of children’s’ fantasy short stories aimed at 9–11year olds showing the importance of empathy
toward disabled people.
Covers the topic of school bullying, and how schoolchildren should deal with it.
Also covering such subjects as importance of friendship, honesty, loyalty and relationships between young
family members and their elders

Isobel played the DVD for the umpteenth time, watching again as Hannah Cockcroft sped round the track in her
racing wheelchair to win gold in the Paralympic Games. She glanced across at her wheelchair, her big, heavy,
awkward wheelchair, knowing that she could only dream of owning one like Hannah’s.

Unbeknown to Isobel, her classmate Lucy knows of her dream and has a plan. With her magical friend Horla,
they train Pip, a Jack Russell dog, to perform amazing tricks and enter him in a talent competition, intending to
use the prize money to buy Isobel the wheelchair she desperately desires. But, as they are about to perform, a
feeling of guilt comes over them–they realise it isn’t right to rob another contestant of the prize they have
trained so very hard for, but if they don’t, how else can they buy the wheelchair? What followed was completely
out of the blue, and certainly unexpected!

Read this and other magical tales, including: The bull to the rescue, The curious case of the flying
jockeys, Lazy Larry and his talking brush and The robins and the pterodactyl.

James Walker is a retired engineer who spent the early part of his career as a patternmaker, making models
(patterns) in wood used to make castings of, amongst other things, propellers for the shipbuilding industry. He
spent the latter part of his career supervising the building of aircraft undercarriages, most notably for the Hawk
aircraft as flown by the Red Arrows.

Publication Date: 28th September 2024 £7.99 ISBN: 9781805145332
Thema subject category: YFHD – Children’s / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy
paperback 198 x 129 mm 224 pp Portrait Author location: Liverpool

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