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ABCtales.com Diary Notice: Shock horror - famous children’s author Terry Deary held captive in
Added: (Mon Aug 13 2001)
Date: 10.30am Wednesday, 26 September 2001
Venue: Lewes Castle
169 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7
Event: Launch of youngABCtales.com
Rumour has it that best-selling children’s author Terry Deary will be taken prisoner and held captive in youngABCtales castle later this year. His captors, it is understood, will only free Terry when children bring the jailor, John Bird, a ransom of stories and poems for the new children’s website www.youngABCtales.com.
John Bird, co-founder of The Big Issue magazine and brains behind youngABCtales.com says he will free Terry when the last story and poem has been handed over, but not before. ENDS
Notes to Editor
· youngABCtales.com is the latest development of award-winning ABCtales, a website and magazine for aspiring writers, eager readers and everyone with a story to tell.
· Currently under development, youngABCtales.com is aimed at 6-15 year olds with a core audience of 8-12 year olds and has been designed around a castle from an original concept by Terry Deary.
· Children will be encouraged to upload their stories and poems onto the site for free and choose an area of the castle to store them in.
· ABCtales management team includes The Big Issue founder, John Bird, The Body Shop co-founder Gordon Roddick and broadcaster, entrepreneur Tony Cook.
· Terry Deary, who hosts the site, has been voted outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century and has sold over 5 million books in 28 languages including the ground-breaking Horrible Histories series, recently premiered on children's ITV.
· For more information contact Lisa Mangan 020 7209 2615 lmangan@abctales.com
· 20 per cent of ABCtales profits go to The Big Issue’s Social Development Fund