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      Hello. I've been writing books for children since 1990 using my name Alan Brown. Now I'm using my full name of Alan James Brown just to make myself easier to find by search engines.

The Monkey theme introduces the Beijing Olympics!
Monkey. The Trickster. The cool dude with the magic staff. After Michael sets him free, anything can happen - and it does!

 MONKEY IS HERE! 

 

Buy Michael and the Monkey King now as paperback or pdf e-book download. Find out more on my novels page.

Other news:

My story Song of the Rain has just been published by Scholastic in their YOR collection Wow! 366 - more details in Short Stories.

 

Gullane Children's Books are contracted to publish my next picture book. The good news is that a US co-edition has been signed. The bad news is that UK publication has been pushed back again, now projected for March 2010. Still, all systems are go!

Breaking news: Turtle's Song is to be produced as an audio CD and book package. Also, Tolpuddle Boy is to be re-published by Five Leaves Publications. I'll let you know when they're available!
Bridge House Publishing have included my story Brothers in their children's Suitcase Full of Stories. For more info, go to my Short stories page.

 
Myself with fellow author Kate Cann at the Kids Literature Quiz World Final at Oxford in July 2008. Taking part were schools from South Africa, New Zealand and China, as well as the British Isles. Truro School (as England) won a thrilling contest. I knew about one answer in twenty!

 

There are complete stories for you to read in short stories, poems in poetry and a play script in drama. All downloads are in Adobe pdf format.

 I hope you enjoy looking round my site!