Kenneth C. Steven,
writer, poet
The Boy who Wouldn’t Swim
Finn lives with his dad in a boat on a beach on the west coast of Scotland. He loves his dad very dearly but often he has to look after him because he drinks too much. The one thing Finn’s dad doesn’t want him to do is to learn to swim (and it’s only later in the story we discover why). But that’s the reason Finn is made fun of at school by the gym teachers. How can he learn to swim and help his dad at the same time? That’s the riddle Finn has to solve.
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FEBRUARY THE 29TH
Toby is about to celebrate his 12th birthday and is travelling to stay with his Uncle Nichol, a mad inventor, in his big house in the countryside. Why then is Toby so miserable? He was born on February the 29th and is bullied for that in school (everyone says he’s only two years old). But what is much, much worse is that his mother is seriously ill and he’s going to stay with Uncle Nichol because the family is having to move house to be closer to hospital. But when he arrives at Uncle’s Nichol’s strange old house, Toby comes to realise that February the 29th has far more significance than he could ever have guessed.
Another novel for 8-12s from Argyll Publishing.
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The Raven's tale and Other Stories
Twelve tales, one for each month of the year. These parable like stories offer young readers and adults alike insights into the things that really matter in life: kindness, love, giving, understanding and celebration.
Many of the stories are about this woderful world of ours, about the wonder of creation and its creator.
| The Santa Maria
This is Kenneth's first novel for 8 to 12's.
It is a Scottish story, set in the Hebrides, and it's thoroughly appropriate that it should be published by a Scottish publisher.
A tale about a lost Spanish Armanda galleon and about the great storm in which it is found, this is also a very real account of growing up on an island and about the lives of two children in particular - Michael and Maria.
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