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Karen Cossey

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As a child, I could usually be found with a book in my hands and a story streaming through my mind. I'd tell you I loved 'Famous Five' and 'Trixie Belden' but that would show my age.

Anyway, after my pet dinosaur, oops I mean dog, showed no interest in moving from the country to the city with me, I ventured forth into the big wide university world by myself, where I had many adventures and quite a few cups of hot chocolate (sorry to confess I don't drink coffee. Please don't hold it against me. I have other vices. You should see how many empty milk bottles I put back in the fridge).

Eventually I found someone to love and cherish who was a real person (sorry Darcy), and we did some roaming of the world after we were married, and also a bit mor As a child, I could usually be found with a book in my hands and a story streaming through my mind. I'd tell you I loved 'Famous Five' and 'Trixie Belden' but that would show my age.

Anyway, after my pet dinosaur, oops I mean dog, showed no interest in moving from the country to the city with me, I ventured forth into the big wide university world by myself, where I had many adventures and quite a few cups of hot chocolate (sorry to confess I don't drink coffee. Please don't hold it against me. I have other vices. You should see how many empty milk bottles I put back in the fridge).

Eventually I found someone to love and cherish who was a real person (sorry Darcy), and we did some roaming of the world after we were married, and also a bit more roaming with our two children some years later, because the first time round we’d visited Venice on a Sunday, and everything was closed. This time we stayed for a week and discovered the ice cream.

Homeschooling consisted of hubby’s favourite reading: a mathematics textbook, my favourite reading: Story of Our World (so proud when doing a walking tour in Prague that my kids from New Zealand could answer all the questions—thank you Susan Wise Bauer), and one we all appreciated: 39 Clues. Actually I read about ten of the 39 Clues books, out loud, whenever we had to drive a long distance. (I could tell they were going to be good the moment I read the first chapter and discovered the protagonists had the same names as my children. Made it fun trying to work out who I was in the story, which changed, depending on my mood and how well my kids were behaving. You parents understand—some days you’re the Cinderella's fairy godmother and some days you’re the wicked stepmother and some days you wish you could’ve been written out of the story just like the father. Especially when you’ve promised your kids one last ice cream from their favourite store in Venice only to arrive on a rainy day to find it’s been flooded out).

Sometime after my kids recovered from their ice cream trauma, they also both ventured out to university. But they still manage to come back home so often the cats don’t even miss them. As for me, I manage to sneak in a lot more writing than when I was homeschooling, which is my delight. That and rain on the roof when I’m drifting off to sleep.

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	Cinderella Sarah: Classroom Read Alouds, Fun Bedtime Stories for Children and Short Stories for Kids 3.92 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2014 — 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 Trespasser's Unexpected Adventure 3.85 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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 Crimson and the Guardian: An Epic Mythical Fantasy full of Medieval Adventure 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — 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
	The Con Artist's Takeover: The Mystery of the Unco-Nerdo School Teacher (Crime Stoppers Series Book 2) 4.60 avg rating — 5 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 Return to Deephaven: An Adventurous Fantasy Journey to Reclaim the Dwarves' Caves from the Deadly Mystical Tworns (The Adventures of Crimson and the Guardian Book 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	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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	Bumble Elf's Clumsy Christmas Catastrophe: A funny ten minute Christmas story for children ages 5-9 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	8 Under 8 For 8's: 8 Short Stories Under 8 Minutes for 8-Year-Olds and Younger 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Medar by S.R. Manssen

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Right from the start when the unlikely heroine, Freya cleverly escapes some village boys intent on tormenting her, you see that she is resourceful and independent. As a baby her face is disfigured in an accident with scalding hot water and she loses sight in one eye. All her childhood she is bullied because of this and so she has learned how to be co Read more of this blog post »

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“eaten his dinner before going to bed, so he wasn’t hungry. Also, wet trolls smell like stinky skunks, which no one likes to eat, not even dragons.”
― Karen Cossey, Short Stories for Kids: Fun Stories for Children

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