Bill Allerton

Foxes, Frogs and Rice Pudding Bill Allerton

Foxes, Frogs & Rice Pudding contains a series of compelling stories and poems initially imagined by children themselves and written to fullness based on their ideas by the author Bill Allerton. The content encompasses a compendu=ium of characters such as Dragons, Magic, Unicorns, Dinosaurs, Giants, Lions, Tigers, Foxes, Frogs, Fish, Girls, Boys, Moths, Rockets, Dentists, Pirates, Vampires, Dogs, School, Trees; Birds, Cats, Witches, Wizards, and Rice Pudding.

The stories contain real people interacting with imaginary, mythical or other animals and introducing a great element of humour and fun into the texts.

The characters and scenes in the book were imagined and invented some years ago between myself and the children of Y2, Sharrow Nursery & Infant School, Sheffield.

Bill Allerton was given the task of completing each of these stories and returning them to the class within one week. On occasion, the list of basic story elements that he was required to include seemed impossible. In the event, none were impossible, some just a little harder to achieve than others. I will let you decide which those were.

The children who had specific involvement are each named within their story, but without the enthusiasm of the whole of the school, affording me inspiration and encouragement, I could not have completed this book.