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Thanks for visiting my website. Here you can find out about me, Paeony Lewis, and my books for children.

In particular I’d like to shout about my newest book for 2008: No More Yawning. It was inspired by my daughter who always had trouble falling asleep, even though she’d assure me she was trying to sleep, she really was... (sound familiar?!).

I hope you enjoy looking around the website and do please take a peek at the special section called All About Names.

If you click Author Name Secrets you’ll discover secrets from children’s authors on how they name the characters in their books. Some characters are named after people that authors know. The name of one character came to an author in a dream. I’ve found it intriguing.

Happy reading,
Paeony

If anything seems wrong with this website, please contact me because I put it together myself and I’m not a web expert (as you’ll have guessed).

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Don’t forget to read Hurry Up, Birthday the evening before a birthday (though of course you can read it any day of the year!).

NEWS: Interested in writing children’s books?

I’m looking forward to tutoring an intensive week’s adult education course in Norwich starting Monday 28 July 2008 (Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm). Called Writing Children’s Fiction the course will range from fun picture books for pre-schoolers to books for sophisticated young teens. Over five days students will unravel the specialist world of children's publishing and experiment with their own writing. I’ll try to pass on everything I wish I’d known when I first started writing. The aim is to inspire beginners to develop their writing long after this course is finished.

For the official course information sheet please click here.