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The Little Fat Athlete

by Wolf Diedrich

15 pages; Saddle stitched; catalogue #07-1223; ISBN 1-4251-3266-9; US$9.13, C$10.50, EUR7.12, £4.72

A book for young people which is fun to read but gives an underlying serious message. Beware of too much food and too little exercise if you want to stay healthy!

About the Book

This book is a fun story. It has been read by two primary school head teachers who consider it to be of educational value. Obesity has become a curse in the western world. We must try to halt it and improve lives, especially those of young people.

This story is written to prevent young people falling into the trap of inactivity by watching too much television and playing too many computer games. We are living in times where many families rely on fast food. Not only that, they do not make any effort to help and promote their children in sport and other activities. This could be either because of lack of time or because they themselves are inactive.

This story shows that by eating the right food and being active that you can have both, fun and good health.

The young reader will see the consequences of either listening to the experts i.e. the doctor, teacher or parent, or of doing nothing. He or she has the choice of how this story ends. We must tell young people that eating too much of the wrong food and not doing enough exercise can have terrible consequences.

Wolf Diedrich

About the Author

Wolf Diedrich was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1934 and has lived in the UK for almost 50 years. The early years of his life were spent growing up with foster parents. He survived the first air raids by the Allies on Hamburg.

At the age of seven he was made to live with his real mother and her husband. Because of his stepfather's work, Wolf moved constantly around in Germany and finishing up in German occupied territories. After the Second World War, the family moved back to Hamburg were at the age of sixteen he was made to train as moulder in an Iron Foundry. Although he qualified after three and a half years, he did not like the work. He only spent a short time in his trained job. He left that and tried his hand in many different occupations. Eventually he finished up travelling and working in several Countries before coming to Britain.

Throughout his life he took part in various sports. He became involved in business ventures, some succeeded, and others he did not. Wolf has written a many short stories and a very interesting autobiography called:"Not only cats have nine lives."

He is now happily married living in Surrey, England. His hobbies are sports, photography, travelling and languages.