The Woodland Wonders

About the Book

Sally's rabbit Hop-pity, by error, is transported from the 21st back to the 19th century, by Father Time. Hop-pity shakes off his predator, swims to safety and is fostered by the Brown Rabbit family - who teach him to fend for himself.

Leaving with Whistler the family's talking kettle, her lives beneath Dr. Cyril Squirrel's oak tree. Woodland friend warning him of Farmer Beddow's whereabouts - yet he has many close encounters. Migratory geese tell that Billy the Kid's wanted dead or alive! As angora is made from goat and rabbit fur, it is assumed that the wool shop owner has made a pact with Farmer Beddow to make Hop-pity into angora wool and rabbit pie. Hop-pity and Cyril plan to emigrate - However Hop-pity marries Rosy Brown rabbit.

After more adventures Hop-pity is caught - the shock sending Rosy into labour. She thinks Hop-pity will die without seeing his offspring. Father time intercedes sending Hop-pity into the 21st century where the farmer's great, great, great grandson catches him. And having saw Sally's card in the wool shop window, delivers Hop-pity to the owner. Consequently Hop-pity and Sally are reunited.

Meanwhile in the 19th century strange ingredients fall into Dr. Squirrels soup. He throws it out in disgust. An acorn feeds on the liquid, grows rapidly - its roots breaking into Rosy's burrow. Her father follows a root, digs upward to find an oak tree growing in the 21st century - reuniting Rosy and Hop-pity. The agree their bunnies spend Sundays with Hop-pity because that's the day Sally's family visits her Grandma, but live with Rosy n the 19th century safe from traffic on 21st century's busy road.

About the Author

Vera born in 1938 was evacuated at 18 months - meeting her parents when the 2nd World war ended. Having learnt Welsh during her evacuation period, she lacked knowledge of the English alphabet. Classmates being way ahead, she turned to mathematics for her career. Vera enjoyed working voluntarily with children - aged twenty, married and then had four children herself.

Her son suffering from arthrogirosis and ardhniodactyly, he was admitted to Bart's Hospital, London as a test case for the disabilities, so in childhood he lived 150 miles from home. He too struggled with English - yet got distinction at ONC and HNC. He won awards aged seventeen and every year at university, became a Chartered Structural and Civil Engineer and a director of an internationals company for who he'd worked worldwide by the age of thirty-two.

Vera believes Dyslexia is caused by the circumstance in childhood 3-6 years. As humans reign over the animal kingdom thanks to language, the brain becomes aware of language weakness by the age of seven, so it blocks language in preference for craft and mathematical skills offering alternative career choice in order to survive... The building blocks 0-9 easily mastered compared to alphabet's many letters of upper and lower case, complicated further by vowels amending letter sounds, lazy k, gh etc.

She received the Priory Award for Wales, from the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in 1983 for voluntary work, then took a catering job at the local hospital and began creative writing as a hobby. Winning a £500 bursary she wrote her first book commemorating the second millennium. Now a retired great grandmother she hopes that her latest book will benefit children in English while improving their cross curriculum skills linked to the story.

This book was planned as a foundation for success in English, Mathematics, and Science - compulsory subjects at GCSE in the UK.