Isaiah : Child of Hope

by Dave Martin

Six-year-old Isaiah awakes in a cold apartment to find himself all alone. Jailed for drug possession, his mother has not been home for two nights. Isaiah is taken into protective custody and put in an emergency shelter. Eventually he’s placed with his grandmother, Mrs. Jones. Isaiah longs to be back with his mother who begins drug treatment. His hopes face a tough reality. His grandmother has a wise and kind heart. She listens to Isaiah’s longings and seeks to keep hope alive and bring healing.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 9, 2009

About the author

David Ralph Martin was an accomplished television and film writer. He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 in collaboration with Bob Baker. Baker and Martin's most notable contributions to the Doctor Who mythos were probably the robot computer K-9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for The Three Doctors, Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story).Together they were nicknamed "The Bristol Boys" by the Doctor Who production teams with whom they worked. They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serial Sky and Into the Labyrinth.

In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.