Darcy-Lee
Tindale is thrilled with the release of her novel, Thumb Pickles and Other
Cautionary Preserves, published with JoJo Publishers. This middle grade
reader, aimed at 10 to 14 year olds, is a collection of stories and includes
the parable about a boy who is born with no thumbs (because SOMEONE should not
have been running with scissors). Darcy-Lee Tindale believes even villains can
fall in love – which she demonstrates in the title story Thumb Pickles
and Other Cautionary Preserves, while telling the tale of how a
person’s difference might influence the way they journey through life.
Inspired by
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and influenced by the 1845 classic collection
of cautionary tales Der Struwwelpeter (Stockheaded Peter) by German
writer Heinrich Hoffmann, Darcy-Lee responds to the common question authors are
so often asked: ‘Then what happened?’
These are the stories you won’t
believe and the stories your parents don’t want you to believe. This
collection includes the story of Klaus
Von Fohn who loved horseradish way too much; Signor Stupido who pulled rude faces; Lorcan O’Reilly who never
washed behind his ears, and because someone ran with scissors, the children of
the whole village of Tenderville lost their thumbs. This collection of
cautionary tales shows how ignoring good advice can lead to finding yourself in
a real pickle.
Darcy-Lee
has many writing credits which include plays, poems and prose published in The
NSW School Magazine, Celapene Press, Tincture, ZineWest, Black & Blue
Publications, Penguin Books and children’s readers with McGraw Hill, Education.
This year she was shortlisted at The Australian Crime Writer Association for
the Ned Kelly Award, a prize which has been honouring the best crime-writing
lurking in Australia since 1995, for her short story The Scars of Noir in
the 2014 Sandra Harvey Short Story Ned Kelly Crime section.
When not
scribbling, Darcy is a dramatic arts teacher by day, and has a background in
directing, acting and theatre-sports. She has appeared on stage, television and
in film. While Darcy is passionate about the performing arts, her first love is
story. And while Darcy enjoys seeing the end result on stage or in film, she
loves the joy of the first discovery, the author’s voice, thoughts, ideas,
themes, and the story in the initial printed word. Her first passion is in
books and novels, and the scope and insight a book or novel can give the
reader.
Thumb
Pickles and Other Cautionary Preserves is available in all good
bookstores, just in time for Christmas.
ISBN:
9780987609618
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages: 166
Publisher:
JoJo Publishing
Target: 10 –
14 years
Links to
purchase your copy:
