Meet Children's Books author Patricia Puddle
Patricia Puddle has many children's stories in her head, and so far, she's published four children's books: Star-Crossed Rascals, Rascals Sing at The Opera House, Velvet Ball and The Broken Fairy, and Molly Gumnut Rescues a Bandicoot. Each book is part of a series. In the first in a series: Adventures of Rascals Polly and Gertie, there are two published books. Patricia is now writing the second Molly Gumnut book in the series: Adventures of Molly Mavis Gumnut. Patricia is also writing the sequel to Velvet Ball in the series: The quests of Velvet and Roseberry. All Patricia's children's books will be available as eBooks as well as paperbacks.
Patricia's books are available on Amazon Books, Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, and other online book stores. To purchase just click on the title or cover or go to the links below.
Children's Books - Paperbacks
Velvet Ball Star-Crossed Rascals
Molly Gumnut Rascals Sing at The opera House
Children's Books - eBooks with Amazon
Velvet Ball Star-Crossed Rascals
Molly Gumnut Rascals Sing at The Opera House
Patricia's children's eBooks are also available at Smashwords, just click on the link: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/TrishaPuddle
The main character in Patricia's Star-Crossed Rascals, was inspired by her antics as a mischievous seven-year-old. She wasn't aware back then that she was acting out scenes for her future as a children's books author.
One day at school, Patricia thought the linen hand-towel that hung from a metal container in the girl's bathroom looked like a great place to have a swing. After pulling herself through the loop of the towel, she began swinging to and fro, all the while giggling with her best friend. Trouble was, the container broke from the concrete wall and came crashing to the ground with Patricia still inside the towel. Rubbing her head, she stared in horror at the rubble that covered the tiled floor and the huge hole in the wall where the towel used to be. Knowing how strict the headmistress was, Patricia didn't hang around to get into trouble, she grabbed her best friend's hand and they fled to the playground. Lucky for Patricia, the teachers' must've thought the towel box fell out by itself because she never got caught for that one.
One morning, Patricia was called to the principal's office for running a teacher off the footpath with a bicycle. She tried to explain it was just an accident, and that she'd only been sitting in the basket attached to the handlebars, it was her friend who was speeding down the hill. They hadn't meant to knock the teacher onto the road, or cause her to drop her groceries. After all, they had warned her by yelling at her to get out of the way. It wasn't their fault her apples rolled down the hill and her eggs smashed on the gravel. Besides, they couldn't help giggling when the teacher fell on her bum. They'd never seen a nun's bloomers before.
Rascals, Polly & Gertie
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Or could it be Star Crossed Angels? Maybe that will be my title for the sequel.
Though Patricia's children’s books are often inspired by her childhood memories, and the many animals around her, she also gets ideas from weird toys she finds in quaint opportunity shops. Patricia also has two new inspirations to her quest as a children’s books author, her two beautiful grandchildren.
When Patricia found a weird-looking fairy doll in an opportunity shop, It inspired her to write another one of her children’s books - Velvet Ball and The Broken Fairy. Of course she had to come up with a character so the fairy could grant a wish. Knowing many children get bullied at school for being different, Patricia came up with Velvet Ball, a nine-year-old bald girl who’d developed alopecia after a long illness. She wanted to pull at the heart strings of the readers, but also make them laugh, so she added as much humour to this children’s story as she could.
For more Feral Sprites by Tiffany Madrake, meet Flax The Feral Fairy Here
Patricia's children's series, Adventures of Molly Mavis Gumnut, was inspired by her sorrow she felt at the pain some animals had to suffer. This included pets and the wonderful native animals she had the priveledge to care for in the wildlife rescue charity she volunteers with. As she lives in a rural county village, their property is full of native animals. Many live happy lives, but so many suffer from vehicles accidents, predators, (like cats, dog, foxes and dingoes), not to mention getting caught in barbed-wire fences. So to bring up the perils of the worlds little creatures to children, she created a character called Molly Mavis Gumnut. Molly loves all animals and will do anything to save them, even if it means getting into trouble. Of course, Molly is always in trouble because she's so impulsive, accident prone and rebellious. The first of the series, Molly Gumnut Rescues a Bandicoot, was inspired by a baby bandicoot that Patricia cared for after it was attacked by a cat. Patricia fell in love with the long-nosed critter and named him Furble. While in her care, she photographed and filmed the tiny amnimal and wrote her children's story, so if you want to know what happened to him, you'll have to read her children's book, Molly Gumnut Rescues a Bandicoot. You can also watch him on her YouTube Movies Here.
Here are some photos of Furble and Molly Gumnut.
Patricia is writing sequels to all her children's books and will be adding updates of their publications.
