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Gareth Baker

Goodreads Author

Born

in Truro, Cornwall, The United Kingdom

Website

http://gareth-baker.com

Twitter

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Genre

Children's, Fantasy, Adventure

Influences

C.S. Lewis, Michael Morpurgo, Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkien ...more

Member Since

May 2013

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Gareth thinks he's one of the luckiest people alive. Every day he gets to wake up, create new worlds and characters, or work with children in schools.

He's not always been a novelist (he was a teacher for 20 years) but stories have always been an important part of his life, both at work and play. When he decided to leave teaching in 2014, starting up his own publishing house seemed the perfect thing to do.

Gareth's journey began 40 years ago. His father was a shepherd so he grew up in the middle of nowhere on a farm. Living in the country gave him the freedom to disappear into fields and barns for hours, re-enacting battles and heroic rescues as well as creating his own. And thanks to films like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman and The T ...more

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Average rating: 4.39 · 49 ratings · 12 reviews · 29 distinct works

	The Kinmaran Chronicles I.i - The Adventures of Brackenbelly: All in a Day's Work 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Minotaur's Eclipse (Time Guardians Book 1) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kinmaran Chronicles I.ii - The Adventures of Brackenbelly: Two's Company 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kinmaran Chronicles I.iii - The Adventures of Brackenbelly: Three's a Crowd? 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Friend 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Brackenbelly - HALLOWEEN EDITION! "All in a Day's Work" Includes bonus story - "Ween's Night" it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kinmaran Chronicles I.iv - The Adventures of Brackenbelly: No Good Deed it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kinmaran Chronicles: The Complete Adventures of Brackenbelly it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kinmaran Chronicles Ii.i - Fernstrike: The Voyages of Brackenbelly it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Super Rabbit by Gareth Baker (Goodreads Author), Vicky Kuhn (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Money isn't everything. If anything it's a poison - Brackenbelly.”
― Gareth Baker, All in a Day's Work

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“One hundred years was a terrible price to pay for one hundred paces - Brackenbelly.”
― Gareth Baker, All in a Day's Work

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Gareth’s Quotes

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, re-reading, reading

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“Money isn't everything. If anything it's a poison - Brackenbelly.”
― Gareth Baker, All in a Day's Work

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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