About
I'm a trainee solicitor working for a criminal law firm in Surrey, England. I have been writing since I was very little and particularly love writing genre fiction. I have several projects in the works, including a horror novel, a science fiction trilogy and a series of children's picture books. My other loves are films and TV shows, making amateur films/trailers/music videos, music, going to gigs, hiking and going to pubs and clubs with mates.
My Fingerpaint Masterpiece Coloring Book
Description
<p>Have you ever seen a "work of art" worth millions, which looks like something your child just brought home from school?</p><p>The dual perspective of "Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder" and just a little bit of "The Emperor's New Clothes" is evident in this clever artwork story of a child who paints a fingerpaint print in class and then loses it in the wind on the way home.</p><p>Illustrated from the point of view of a child, whose identity is left to the imagination of the reader since all of the illustrations are what the child sees, the fingerpaint print is interpreted by official "judges" as well as by bystanders. Should people be influenced by what others see, or use their own self-esteem to make their own judgments? This coloring book version allows children to illustrate their own version of the book, and even to create a "masterpiece" of their own!</p><p>This is the fourth rhyming children's coloring book by this award-winning author, whose other bestselling books include David's ADHD, My Little Angel, The Golden Rule, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift.</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won over 100 awards for her previous rhyming books and coloring books, and is also the author of 7 published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "a modern day Dr. Seuss." - GTMA Review</p>
Story Behind The Book
"The Pendulum Swings" has quite a long history as I have been writing it for 10 years and it incorporates ideas I had from years before that. So I feel like I know these characters very well now! When I was little I was always writing about wizards and witches and monsters and it's all culminated in this. It began as a trilogy, but after writing the trilogy at university, I realized it would work better as a single book (though I haven't ruled out a sequel!)
I find fantasy can be both the easiest thing to write, because there are no rules and you can make it all up as you go along, and the hardest thing to write, because you can get to a point where you run out of imagination! To KEEP making up wacky names, interesting places and original monsters can be a challenge! It is the most fun though because it is pure escapism to write fantasy - and to read it - because it has nothing to do with the real world.
I hope you all enjoy the world I have created in "The Pendulum Swings"!
