Books in Picador Books series

Arthur wakes up one Saturday morning very excited. His cousins, Ace and Poppy, are coming to visit him and his baby brother Charlie. It’s the end of the summer – and there’s just time enough for a fun family weekend by the sea before school starts next week. This story is set in baby Charlie's first summer, and is the author's imaginings of a weekend of fun for her younger cousins.

Tasha's Torment Tasha is being bullied in her new school. She doesn’t feel able to tell a teacher about it, as it’s “only small stuff” – after all, she says to herself, it’s not like she’s being beaten up or anything, surely she ought to be able to put up with it… But she is miserable. Something needs to be done. Examining bullying – and why bullies bully people – “Tasha’s Torment” is designed to enable children and young adults to seek solutions to being bullied, and build their confidence and self-esteem, in order to make a change. Included within this volume are valuable tips for parents / carers / support workers and teachers on dealing with bullying from the angles of the victim, the perpetrator and bystanders. “Tasha’s Torment” is a therapeutic book for children and young adults: a tale of coping with being bullied at school, by leading educational administration trainer, psychotherapist and author Angela Garry. This is her third therapeutic story book in a series of books for children, young adults, their families and support workers.

"Bound for Glory" is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.

"Scarecrows on Safari" is the fourth story in the ‘Draycott Scarecrow Trilogy’ for children, following the adventures of Sandy, Pete and Fiona, three 3 inch tall crocheted scarecrows from Draycott, Derbyshire. Susie is donating all of her crocheted toys to Jubilee school in deepest Africa – Sandy, Pete, Fiona and all the other Draycott Magical creatures are off on a Safari adventure! Proceeds from every copy sold will be used by the ‘Rams in Kenya’ group to directly support the schoolchildren at Jubilee school in Nakuru, Kenya. "Scarecrows on Safari" is by leading educational administration trainer and author Angela Garry, who lives in Draycott. This book is part of the Pica Books series of books for children and young adults. www.picabooks.co.uk