Books in Sebastian Seagull series

Captain Cook and the HMS Endeavour is a children's short story, to honour the return of the replica ship Endeavour to Whitby Harbour. It is Book five in the series of Sebastian Seagull stories and features, as the main character, Dracula Gull. ....Dracula is no ordinary seagull. His shiny feathers are black and purple. Above his webbed feet, he wears black leather boots with studs and chains linked around his body. His eyes are red and his beak is gold. He lives in a ruined Abbey in Whitby and is the charismatic leader of his Goth Gulls. They crave excitement and danger and are not afraid of anything or anybody. Being a seagull, he spends most of his time watching and observing the behavour of humans. He can't quite understand what their purpose in life is. They don't fly or go fishing in fact, as far as he is concerned, they are pretty useless.One day as he sits on the harbour wall, he is intrigued to see a beautiful tall sailing ship in the harbour. There is a lot of frantic activity happening with many men carrying large barrels and sacks of food on to the ship.A very distinguished looking man is giving instructions to his officers. They are dressed in smart uniforms and look important.Dracula wonders who this man is. Surely he can't be that important that humans salute him. In Dracula's eyes he is the most important being on earth. His curiosity gets the better of him and he flies down and lands on the ship's mast. After a quick survey of his surroundings, he heads inside the ship and enters a journey that will lead him into trouble and for the first time in his life he experiences real fear. Will Dracula survive his ordeal? Will he ever see his beloved Whitby Abbey and his Goth gulls again?Read on to find the answer.

Close your eyes for just a moment and imagine a small fishing village, where the tiny cottages tumble down the hill to the sea. Can you see the seagulls flying and swooping in between the roof tops? Their shrill cries to each other echoing around the tiny cottages. Lovely, isn't it? but not in Robin Hood's Bay. This story is a twisted tale of danger, ghost ships, pirates from the past, evil Goth Gulls and the Robin Hood's Bay gulls, who think they are humans and not seagulls.So, come walk with me down the cobbled pathways, passed the smugglers cottages and down to the Bay, where the sea is wild and stormy. Let's head for the beach, but be sure, if you see a gold coin lying in the sand, DON'T PICK IT UP, unless you want to slip into a time warp and run the risk of being captured and kept on a ghost ship for ever!

A New Year dawns in Robin Hood's Bay and with it comes the worst storm in seventy years. The villagers are marooned in their cottages unable to get help because of the snow.As for Sebastian's seagulls they are slowly freezing to death. What is to become of them and how does Kevin, the cave bat, help them?and Dracula and his Goth gulls in Whitby Abbey? They too are struggling to survive and have the added worry of being eaten alive by the Vampire bats!Read on to find out what happens next .......

THE STORY SO FARClose your eyes for just a moment and imagine a small fishing village, where the tiny cottages tumble down the hill to the sea. Can you see the seagulls flying and swooping in between the rooftops? Their shrill cries to each other echoing around the village. Lovely, isn’t it, but not here in Robin Hood’s bay.These books are adventure stories with twisted tales of danger, ghost ships, pirates from the past, evil Goth gulls and the Bay seagulls, who think they are humans and not gulls. Their leader is Sebastian Seagull. He is very old and tired and doesn’t quite understand why the young gulls colour their feathers and pretend to be humans instead of doing normal seagull things.Book One – Sebastian SeagullA small boy discovers a gold coin in the sand and this triggers the appearance of an orange mist and a ghost pirate ship on the horizon. The village has slipped into a time warp and everybody is in danger.On board the ship is the hated Captain Tobias and his evil parrot, Bilgie. Sebastian seagull remembers them from his past life when he was a cabin boy on that very ship. He was killed by the Captain. Now he has been reborn as a seagull, but Sebastian has a secret nobody knows about. He can turn himself into a mighty ghost gull whenever the pirate ship appears.Somehow the Bay gulls have to defend their village, but they are too busy playing football or strumming on a guitar. Scot gull is playing his bagpipes and Super gull is busy training to fly into space. As for Greedy gull, he just can’t stop pinching ice creams from tourists and stuffing himself with meat pies and cake. Sharon, a pretty diva gull, spends her days preening her bright pink and sparkly feathers to even notice what is going on in Bay.Can they save the village from the pirates? Will their enemy Dracula, the leader of the Goth gulls from Whitby, help them? Book Two – The StormA severe snowstorm descends on the village. The gulls are close to being frozen to death.Can Kevin, a cave bat who lives at Boggle Hole, help them? Will Noo Noo, the kind but lonely Dolphin, let them stay in his wonderful blue grotto?As for Dracula gull and his evil Goth gulls, in the ruined abbey a few miles away in Whitby, they face not only the freezing weather, but also being eaten alive by vampire bats.Will they survive? Yes, of course they do. They may like living in a fantasy world, but deep down they have a survival instinct. Book Three – The Abandoned ChickSpring arrives and life starts to get back to normal for the Bay gulls, until one day a stranger arrives in Bay and everything changes.Read on to find out what happens next to the Robin Hood's Bay seagulls …

The Christmas Tree - Sebastian Seagull (Book Four) is a short Christmas Special. It features the Robin Hood's Bay seagulls and the Goth gulls from Whitby.Yet again life for the gulls never runs smoothly. Excitement is rising as the village prepares for Christmas. Even the seagulls are having fun, providing a Christmas tree on the roof of a cottage for little Twinkle and her adopted gull mother Sharon. To add the final touches Twinkle and her best friend Gregory (youngest Goth gull from the bewitching Whitby Abbey) decide to sprinkle the tree with space dust given to them by Super gull on his return from space. What happens next disrupts the humans and the gulls and Christmas is threatened by a very unusual happening.