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Helen Peters


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Helen Peters is the author of The Secret Hen House Theatre. She grew up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud. She spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her friends turned into a theatre. After university, she realised that she needed to find a job where someone would pay her to read stories and put on plays (though maybe not in a tumbledown shed) and so she became an English and Drama teacher. Several years later, finding herself as a stay-at-home mother of two, she decided to have a go at writing the sort of book she’d so enjoyed as a child. Helen lives with her husband and children in London, and she can still hardly believe that she now gets ...more

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A Piglet Called Truffle A Duckling Called Button A Sheepdog Called Sky A Kitten Called Holly A Lamb Called Lucky A Goat Called Willow An Otter Called Pebble
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Helen Peters, A Duckling Called Button

“When I left Germany in 1939," she said, "one of the last things my father said to me was, 'Now, whatever happens, you must always be my cheerful, brave little girl.'"...
… "And," she said, "I think I have been."
pg 288”
Helen Peters, Anna at War

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Helen Peters, An Otter Called Pebble

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