Animal Turns

Animal Turns

For some time now I've thought it might be a good idea to put together a collection of my stories that feature animals.  At the same time, I thought I would like to publish a book that helped a particular charity.  This year, I've managed to combine the two ideas!  

'Animal Turns' is a collection of 12 heart-warming, engaging but, most of all, amusing stories about animals, both real and imaginary.  Some stories are from previous collections, others have never been published in book-form before.  To quote from the blurb:

"Philip has gathered together a whole bunch of amusing stories about the animals in his life (with the help of Packham, the chocolate Labrador, of course). All of the profits from this book will go towards helping TURN Education C.I.C. to achieve their objectives of helping children and their families to Tackle Underachievement and Realise New beginnings."

In this book you'll listen in to the 'conversations' of Packham (a chocolate-brown labrador who delights in being called 'the face of TURN Education') and his friend, India.  You'll hear, amongst other things, about my childhood indiscretions with dog biscuits, our dog's near-fatal fascination for railway workers, how a cat and her kittens unexpectedly came to stay, what the ox and the ass had to say in that stable on that night and what the camels that brought the wise men had to say about it all.  If you like animals and enjoy a giggle, you can't fail to be amused.

As it says above, all of the profits from this book will be going to help TURN Education, a local Community Interest Company, continue their excellent animal-based therapy for children and their families.  You can find out a lot more about TURN and its objectives by following this link.

The book is only available as a paperback edition at the moment, as we felt it would make an excellent stocking-filler in the forthcoming festivities.  The price is just £4.99 and, although we would be delighted if you bought the book at all, if you buy it through Amazon we won't be able to maximise the amount that eventually gets to TURN because, understandably, Amazon takes its share.  Therefore, if you could consider buying directly from me, that would ensure that a good chunk of the book price will go to TURN with no deductions for administration or anything - just a straightforward donation of the whole profit.

To order the book, just drop me an email at 

philwhiteland@philwhiteland.plus.com

and we'll put the wheels in motion for you.

We do hope you'll order the book, either through Amazon or ourselves, and we would like to thank you, in advance, for taking an interest.  Packham has promised to wag his tail extra hard if you do :-)