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ADVANCE INFORMATION SHEET :PUBLICATION DATE: 10th June 2005

TITLE                                   Alfie’s Adventures; Book 1
ISBN
                                    1 904754 xx x       PRICE   £5.99
AUTHOR:                             Gerald Howe   
ILLUSTRATIONS                  Channimation   
PUBLISHER
                         PenPress Publishing Ltd
CATEGORY                         Children’s        
TARGET AUDIENCE             7-9 year olds; mainly boys; will appeal to girls
SPECIFICATION                  Paperback, 110 pages, B format, 18 b/w illustrations
WHO WILL BUY                  Target boys, transitioning from picture books to text-based books;the illustrations are inspired by 1940’s cartoons (Tin Tin, Popeye);
                                           soft educational value in accessible snippets of historic facts


·        Time-travelling adventures with inventive Alfie Nelson, and his dog Eddie

·        Meet historic characters, travel to interesting lands, cross different time zones

·        Alfie is an inventive problem-solver, using his night-time travelling adventures to solve real-life events.

·        Unravel the secret of Alfie’s time-travelling bed

·        Imaginative, informative and fun

·        Fast flowing action to keep young boy’s attention and commitment to reading


The author, Gerald Howe, is a successful entrepreneur in the electronics industry, a happily married father of two grown children and owner of one faithful dog – Eddie. Alfie was inspired by his memories of his own son’s voracious appetite for snippets of information about people and places of the world.


Illustrations are by Channimation - 25 years+ experience in international animation and production, creating such programmes as SHOE PEOPLE, VIZ ANIMATION and TRANSYLVANIA PET SHOP.


PenPress Publishing is rapidly earning a reputation of producing a great range of excellent quality titles; and our new IndepenPress imprint represents books that have a proven market audience and market value. They are rigorously edited and well-researched prior to publication, offering literary merit and award-winning potential.

DISTRIBUTED BY               Gardners, Amazon.co.uk or via the publisher.


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Phone: 07940 911087   Email: joanna@penpress.co.uk


ISBN BOOK 1: 1 905203-19-5
ISBN BOOK 2: 1 905203-20-9
ISBN BOOK 3: 1 905203-21-7
ISBN BOOK 4: 1 905203-22-5