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    Children's Stories:To read at bedtime,by Grandfather.

    By Bernard King

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    This book has been created not to read, but to tell. It is truly a bedtime story book.
    There is repetition, children love repetition, there are expressions, clichés to the rest of us, but children love them. In fact children love anything they can relate to.
    As a writer of scripts and novels, I have tried to combine both in these stories. There is dialogue for the reader to characterise, brightening a reading drone.
    Work on these stories, and you will get as much fun reading them to the children, as they will get listening to them, and as much fun I have had writing them.
    I tried to categorise the stories into age groups but abandoned the idea. My three year old Goddaughter seemed to enjoy them as much as my five year old Grandson. Although the seven and eight year olds lowered their bottom lips, scorning them somewhat with their vast experience.
    There are no baddies in these stories, no evil characters, ogres or corpses, which to my horror, I see in many children’s books. The idea of these stories is to lull the little dynamos to sleep, not wake them screaming.
    Finally, whilst I created all the stories, I did not choose which to put in this book. The kids did.
    So you have a fully tested, market approved, choice here.
    Of all the stories, the one most enjoyed by the grandchildren was The Conductor. It was voted the best, far ahead of the rest. When I suggested working on the stories, I meant to read the stories before they are told to the children, work out the voices of the characters, and then give a performance. The Conductor requires a lot of arm waving, which whilst my acting carried it to the top of the list, the amount of giggling when I closed the bedroom door did not hint of imminent sleep from my audience – you have been warned!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard King
    Release dateDec 31, 2011
    ISBN9781465794369
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    Children's Stories:To read at bedtime,by Grandfather.
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    Bernard King

    Bernard King was born in Holyhead in the UK, but the family moved within two week to London. He spent an exciting, if hairaising, childhood during the London blitz, being evacuated to safety when it had finished. In the early sixties he wrote comedy scripts for radio and TV for most of the big names of the time. Switching to a saner business he built up a successful electronic service company, although continued writing the odd piece for BBC radio. In the ninties he wrote his first novel but it took ten years before his sixth, SELLEBRITY was published. His seventh, TOTAL COMMITMENT, has recently been followed by IMAGINE. Between novels he has written four books of children's stories, that record healthy sales all over the world. BEHIND OLYMPIA, a film scrip he wrote many years ago, is being turned into another novel.

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