The Spirit of the Star

Seren, an imaginative, curious young girl discovers a forgotten dusty journal hidden away in an attic. It details the life of Bess, a 19th Century adventurer. Through reading Bess’s journal Seren has her own dream adventures. The stories are inspired by traditional tales, myths and legends. So come on a journey that is full of magic, talking animals, giants, gods, witches, mythical beings and monsters.

The Son of Tintin Bailey

High school student, Perry Crabbe, is the school’s bully. Armed with a mullet haircut and a thick gold chain around his neck, Tintin Bailey, the charmless son of a notorious criminal, bullies international students.

Perry goes on holiday to the island of Bali. He meets small time criminal, Firas, who is in Tintin’s bad books for a deal that went wrong. Firas needs to take a mysterious parcel from Bali back to Tintin Bailey in Perth. He plans to make Perry carry it for him.

What is in the mysterious parcel? What happens when the knife-wielding locals meet Perry in a quiet alleyway? Will he make it home alive?

The Snowman

This delightful story follows the excitement of four children when they realise they have the day off school and can now play in the snow. They quickly get up and get dressed with a mission to build a snowman.

The Snow Dome Storybook

Have you ever gazed into a snow dome and wondered what it would be like if the world inside was real? Well, 12-year-olds Ali Wiseman and James Newman don’t have to wonder. When they stumble across a secret storey of Rose Cottage, they discover a magical snow dome and are swirled into the world within.

The Smelly Skunk and the Wise Monk

In a forest full of wildlife, a group of friends pass their days away in the best possible way by playing and having fun, but there is a problem, a smelly problem.

Poor skunk, through no fault of his own but by nature’s little joke on him, lets off an awful smell from time to time that makes you wish you did not have a nose in the first place.

The skunk’s awful smell scares away everything who has the misfortune of being within the smelling range, and more importantly, it puts an abrupt stop to play.

Skunk definitely needs help; therefore, a few wise words from a wise monk could go a very long way.

There are more scary things in the forest than the skunk’s smell and it is in the form of hunters. Will the skunk save the day or will he be trapped along with his forest friends, which will indefinitely end play time?

Join the adventure of these forest animals in their beloved forest.

The Six Macs and the Slime Monster from Loch Ness

Thrusting their arms into the air with clenched fists they shout, "The Six Macs". Scruffy MacTuffy had no ideas that his nightmare was about to almost come true. Meeting for a fishing trip could have been a bad idea after their biggest catch got away, but what was it that got away? The Six Macs explore the opposite side of the river after a daredevil bridge crossing where they find a long dark cave leading to a journey of danger and something a little bit on the scary side. That evening they tell their parents what they saw, but they think their stories are a bit too imaginative. So a second trip is arranged for the following day with their parents coming along. The parents keep joking about the Six Macs' story but they will soon believe every single word they said.

David J Dawkins has been writing stories for his son for many years. It's only recently now he is older that his son suggested that he should get them published.

The Six Macs and the Purple Orb

The Six Macs, while camping, find a snail with a purple light in its shell. Flyer MacHigher is visited by Jack of the wood (The Green Lady) in her dream. Jack calls the snail a Purple Orb, she asks Flyer to return it to an underground lake in her sacred wood. The lake is where all the Purple Orbs live. They feed the lake with energy from the moon, which then feeds all the trees including The Green Lady with energy and life. In Jack’s wood, there is a five-hundred-year-old wise oak tree, who is Jack’s friend.

The Six Macs arrive at Jack’s wood only to find that it is being destroyed to make way for a science laboratory. It’s very noisy with demonstrators and riot police. Jack pleads with The Six Macs in their dreams to help her stop the diggers and chainsaws from destroying her wood. In the morning they raise their fists in the air and shout “The Six Macs” before starting their mission.

The Six Macs and the Bell of Souls

After surviving a plane crash, the Six Macs find themselves in a snowy Himalayan wilderness where they discover the village of a secretive mountain tribe who show them the way to a temple run by kung-fu nuns.

The nuns tell them that the mountain tribe must be kept secret and that they can tell no one what they have seen. They also tell them that while they were mending the tribe's precious Bell of Souls, it was stolen from them by English travellers.

After a dangerous journey to base camp, the Six Macs find the stolen bell and begin their adventure to return it to the hidden tribe.

The She Team

Five animals, four cats and a dog, are all black and white and are females, but they have two more things in common not apparent at first – they have all been treated badly in different ways by a number of humans and they all have a superpower which helps them to get away from the baddies. Two kind brothers, nine-year-old Diarmuid and seven-year-old Eoghan, rescue the cats Smig, Ebi, Trig and Róisín and the dog, Mags, and persuade their parents to take them all into their home.

The animals do not like each other at first, but eventually Mags persuades the cats to abandon their differences and unite together to form The She Team. Her encouraging words, “Don’t get mad, get even!” convince them that they will work together to stop their tormentors from hurting other animals. They are confident that their superpowers will help them achieve their goal.

The Shark Detective

Down in Schull there is a worldWhere magic, and mischief, and adventure, unfurlsKids and grownups flock to the seaFor holidays and mysteryAnd in the ocean’s mighty streamSome see reflections, but Sam sees his dreamSam Sharkey is quite a character. A shark raised by a human daddy, he spends his days in the quiet seaside town of Schull, surrounded by his family and friends, and motivated by his dream. You, see, Sam is no ordinary shark, he dreams of being the world’s first shark detective. With a heart as big as the ocean, Sam is about to set out to make his dream a reality.

The Shadowless Bird

Bewildered by the confusion of quarantine, Didi the young bird falls into a series of unusual reactions of disorientation, as a consequence of the psychological conditions of the lockdown, due to the virus threatening everybody’s life. Lacking the joy of living normally, he feels taken aback by the loss of his shadow.

Didi departs on an adventure to search for his lost shadow, proceeding beyond his fears to seek his truth, intersecting with the absolute truth of the individual, in the shadow of society and of collective and personal knowledge at the same time. He searches for the truth, which is also a very personal truth, even when applied to scientifically proven questions. And while everyone is influenced by his personal shadow and the shadows of modern life’s difficulties and challenges, in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic, that has swept the globe and eclipsed the standards of knowledge, by imposing totally different norms from all the concepts of freedom, that have been experienced, applied and fought for, across generations and civilisations, Didi is fighting his own battle of finding himself.

Starting with his family and friends, then further into the unknown of people and places, each character puts his own signature on the matter of the shadow, sought and aimed differently from person to person, reflecting the richness of life and inciting the call for solidarity between all living creatures.

The Shadow of the Rowan Tree

Are you a believer? The future of humanity depends on it!

This story follows Daisy and Margot, the tooth fairy she dreams of, as they discover new things about each other’s worlds and find themselves in a plot to save them both. Daisy discovers that Aspirion, the fairy kingdom, is more real than she ever could have imagined, whilst Margot uncovers an unexpected treachery which threatens their survival.

A tale of friendship, lies, teamwork and the power of believing. Two worlds inextricably linked with the potential to destroy each other. Will the belief in hope and magic overcome the odds?