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And guess where there is a huge funfair? Universal Studios in Singapore. As luck had it, we were both in Singapore attending the Asian Conference of Children Content, a big important conference mostly about children’s books held in the old Singapore Parliament, and as luck further had it, we had a day off between sessions.
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Now, James and I have been getting a great deal of flack from our friends about this next part, but, in all honesty, we had to visit a funfair as part of our research to make notes and take lots of photos. The minor plot running above the main story is based on a real Norse mythological legend about the God, Sigurd, and his near fatal battle fighting against a huge, fierce, fire-breathing dragon called Fafnir, who attacks Asgard and almost defeats the Gods. As a setting for the story, we have created Viking World, a run-down theme park based on a cross between a recreated Viking village and a funfair with a sideshow alley, a roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, actors dressed as Vikings, a fiord, a Longhouse and a burning Longship, every afternoon at 5pm. The working title is to be The Lost Vikings and it is set a year or two in future when the twins are now old enough to be terrible toddlers.
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Even more excellent!!Īfter tinkering at the edges since last July, James and I have started working on the sequel to The Last Viking. Though he tells me he is considering changing it by deed poll to K-nut. Excellent! And well done to his parents on picking a name for him that I could actually spell when signing his book. Josh made a Viking helmet from his bike helmet when he heard I was to visit his class. Long may it continue as I have some long and expensive holidays, er… book research, to pay for with the royalties. Who would have thought the whimsical little story James and I concocted on Rottnest Island three years ago would be so popular with kids of all ages. It seems it is a favourite with a great many of them and romped it home in the class voting for Book of the Year. I survived them and met loads of lovely kids all bursting with excitement and really enjoying the book. His school librarian, Heather Lindsay, invited me to her school to meet all the kids, including the rather terrifying pre-primary classes. This is Josh from Dalyellup Primary School on the coast near Bunbury in WA.
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James has let his imagination really rip and has come up with some stunning images, and I can hardly wait to see it in its full glory. All the sketches are in place, and even the words have got past our eagle-eyed editor, Cate Sutherland, without too much slashing and burning.
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He is very proud of the fact that the shield says ‘Toby’ in Viking.Īnd as for the sequel that Margaret mentions, let me tell you, IT LOOKS FABULOUS. Tony’s contribution was the head wear! He does not seem fussed that it was Wolverine and not Josh thus attired, I shall let him wear the real deal when he visits later this year. He has the book read to him each night and he made this great costume with mummy over the weekend. It is our grandson Toby, Tony and Imogen’s wee one. Thought you would like to meet the latest Viking to join the band. James is even away in the Kimberley region at this very moment on a Literature Centre sponsored tour of schools in remote areas.īelow is Margaret’s charming note that came with photo. Margaret is a curator at the Fremantle Literature Centre who have been fabulous supporters of me from when my first book was launched there twenty years ago, and of James and I and The Last Viking from way before the day it was launched at the centre during the wildest storm anyone can remember. Toby is the five year old son of multi-award winning author of stacks of great novels, Tony Eaton, and his lovely wife Imogin. I was just send this fabulous photo of Toby by his proud grandmother, Margaret Eaton.