Drew spent most of his professional life working in the Engineering Design Services sector, managing sophisticated three-dimensional software applications. It was a challenging and demanding environment and upon retirement his eldest daughter suggested that he went back to what she as a child loved best, which was Drew telling her stories completely unaided and straight out of his head. Never declining a challenge, Drew started writing a few months prior to his retirement and found the stories just tumbling out quicker than he could write them. Drew admits that this was and still is a most rewarding and creative experience that anyone could possibly want to pursue.
Read about the amazing adventures of Harry Alliss. The central character is Harry, a young boy with several strong female mentors who add zest to his various adventures. Get to know Harry’s amazing friends and their magical, fantastical and sometimes dramatic adventures together, but always with a connection towards strong family relationships, values and those special bonds of friendship. Harry may be flying in space or sitting in a doctor’s waiting room but the adventures just keep happening to him. Learn about amazing things that you may have never heard of but that existed at some time. Unravel some of the words in the book to make the stories even more fun. Share Harry’s journey and enjoy the fabulous and exciting world of Harry Alliss. The basis for the stories is as a bedtime read, although it shouldn’t be restricted to only bedtime reading as they can be read at any time. The stories are sequential, so they should be read from the beginning to the end as several characters are introduced during the various adventures. The central themes are rooted in what is around us and what may have occurred or happened in the past or present, including physical items that may have existed before. The idea is to ask questions and interact with the storytelling. The stories have the ‘cuddle factor’ so that adults reading to their children can enjoy the story as much as the children who are listening to it.
Join Harry Alliss and his fun friends on an exciting adventure through fourteen short stories. Meet your favourite characters from Books 1 & 2, like Aunty Dare, Lady Vix, and Mr. Keith, as they help Harry in his new adventures. Harry is a young boy who has many grown-up friends that make his adventures even more exciting.
Dive into a world full of magic, fantasy, and sometimes a little bit of trouble as Harry and his friends go on amazing journeys together. These stories are all about the love of family, being a good friend, and always sticking together, no matter what.
This book also talks about some important things happening in the world today, making the stories feel even more real. But no matter what happens, Harry is still just a regular kid, like the boy next door, who wants you to come along on his exciting adventures with him.
February 10th was another standout day. I had received an invitation to go to Leigh Academy Bearsted and talk to Year 3 and 4 children.This time the school wanted me to talk about storywriting. When ........
I had the pleasure of being invited back to Leigh Academy Bearsted to talk to the children in Year 3 about the illustrations as featured in The adventures of Harry Alliss. The children picked thre ........
Hi everybody, I’m Drew Salah and this is my blog about how I came to write The Adventures of Harry Alliss (and friends) and some of the steps along this journey. I’m a Newbie so this is actually ........
Hello everybody Drew here, and todays blog is about writing a book. Well, my book is what I really mean. So where do you start. I often wondered about that myself until I actually started pennin ........
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