Electronic Lollipops

About the Book

Electronic Lollipops is the second in a series of fictional children’s books based on the adventures of Pumpkin and Diddle, two tropical fish who dream of travel, excitement, and saving the world. In this story they spend time singing and talking about the need to balance lives with both outdoor play and indoor electronic excitement. Throughout their adventure, they meet many interesting creatures and visit an ocean full of beautiful colors and shapes, and as the tale unfolds, a cheeky blue marron crab called Fab asks that you search for his cousins as they play hide-and-seek. Readers are challenged as they follow the story to search for the secrets that lay hidden among the pages. Fab is such an absentminded crab. He has also lost his home, and the reader is asked to find it as well as discover the five differences that exist between the pages of the story.

About the Author

I was born in England in 1965 and, due to work opportunities offered to my father, spent most of what was an extremely happy childhood growing up in a small town called Nelson, on the south island of New Zealand. In 1980 I moved to Australia and then in 1982 joined the Royal Australian Navy as an electrician where I remained and worked for the next twenty-three years. In 1992 I met my wife, Vicky, and a few years later, my daughter, Ayeesha, was born, followed eighteen months later by my son, Bowie. In 2005 I published my first book, Art & Soul, a collection of poetry and digital art, and having found the confidence and means to get a book published, I turned to my children and found the inspiration to write and illustrate the first in what will be a series of four books based on the adventures of two tropical fish. Like the first book, I have presented the story in the form of rhyme and have also incorporated several games with the aim of making it more interesting and interactive. The theme of this book will again be our planet and the issues that we are currently faced with, and it is through this story that I hope that we can help to spread the word—balance technology with traditional play.