Poetry
Much of my early children's writing was written in the form of rhyming story poems.
Rhyming stories can be very appealing (Julia Donaldson's "Gruffalo" being a fine example), but picture book editors are often wary of publishing them as they are usually difficult to translate for foreign language co-editions (which help to make a book profitable). Nevertheless, I still write in rhyme occasionally.
Here are a few examples of my early unpublished work.
A trio of toy-related poems.
A long story poem about a strange door-to-door salesman.
A macabre story poem about a very unpleasant dentist - not for the fainthearted!
A couple more of my early poems with their accompanying illustrations
that can be found in my Artwork Portfolio. |
