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Coming Soon:
A bumper packed Summer Special Edition
'Toby Twirl Adventures'
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION OUT
NOW:
The "Stablemate" of Rupert & Noddy is
now back after 50 years to complete the Vintage Trio.
This very special limited edition A4 sized
full colour book is the first new Toby Twirl publication since 1958!
It's a children's 'Christmas story and Activity Sticker Book' that retains all
of the original timeless charm and magic of Toby Twirl and yet successfully
combines this with the modern genre of children's sticker activity books.
The Sticker Book is packed full with plenty
of festive fun and reading for children aged 4 to 8 yrs (not excluding
parents, grandparents or Toby Twirl collector's of all ages of course!) and
features the following:
-
Toby Twirl and the Reindeer - Story by Sheila
Hodgetts
-
Toby Twirl and Friends Stickers
- 2 pages of coloured stickers
-
Game: Potato Race - An objective
challenge board game
-
Game: Let Us All Go Sledging - A
traditional double paged board game
-
Sticker Landscape - Make your
own picture with the stickers
-
Pictures for you to Colour - 4
pages of pictures to colour
-
Features all original artwork by
e.jeffrey digitally re-mastered
Make sure of
receiving your copies to make unique Christmas presents for friends and family or
just to add to your own Toby Twirl Collection by sending us your order today:
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Sheila Hodgetts interviewed at
the Publication Launch of the first Toby Twirl Adventure book to be
published since 1958 explained that she started her writing career in 1943
when her publishers, Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. asked her to create a
character that, with his friends, would inhabit a world of magic and
mystery. After much consultation with the publisher’s main artist, Edward
Jeffrey, about what forms the characters should take Toby Twirl and his
friends were born, and began the many adventures which befell them. Toby
Twirl was an instant and quite sensational success, selling several million
copies of a succession of books in the UK and Commonwealth countries. Toby
Twirl was contemporary with Rupert and Noddy, and both of these are still
very much in print. It seemed desirable, therefore, that the third in this
very popular trio of children’s characters from that era should be available
for today's children to enjoy. The magic and mystery of the Toby Twirl
adventures still appeals to today’s generation of younger readers, as can be
verified by Sheila Hodgetts' nine great-grandchildren, who still read the
original Toby Twirl books with great enjoyment. Toby Twirl and the Reindeer–A Christmas Story and Activity Sticker Book has now been produced and
published by Toby Twirl Ltd., a company in which Sheila plays a very
significant part.
Sheila Hodgetts c1947 and today.
Sheila Hodgetts,
creator and author of all the Toby Twirl books was at the London Book Fair on
Tuesday 7 March, 2006 to promote Toby Twirl Ltd reintroducing this
classic character
and his adventures to today's generation of
children.
Sheila Hodgetts is pictured above with her daughter, Tania Hughes, on the
stand at the London Book Fair 2006.
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information regarding available Rights in all media and territories,
contact Roy Thomas on
00 44 1993 881001
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