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Classics For Kids: Sherlock Holmes #2
Silver Blaze
As part of the Classics For Kids series international best-selling author Mark Williams is proud to present the second of the Sherlock Holmes short story adaptations: Silver Blaze.
Come join Holmes and Watson as they solve the mystery of the missing racehorse, Silver Blaze, in a child-friendly, twenty-first century English and with the seamier side of Victorian life left out.
Ideal for children of all ages to get started with the world's most famous detective.
Come join Holmes and Watson as they solve the mystery of the missing racehorse, Silver Blaze, in a child-friendly, twenty-first century English and with the seamier side of Victorian life left out.
Ideal for children of all ages to get started with the world's most famous detective.
56 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 4, 2015
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About the author
Mark Williams
43 books1 followerLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Novelist, TV scriptwriter, playwright and freelance travel-writer, Mark Williams is a British ex-pat living in The Gambia, West Africa.
Author of the international best-selling novels "Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story", currently marketed`under the Saffina Desforges brand, and co-author with Saffina of the "Rose Red" crime thriller series.
The French-translated Sugar & Spice topped the charts in France, and a Chinese translation of "Sugar & Spice" hit #1 on Kindle China in 2014.
"Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story" will be available in French, Spanish and Portuguese later this year.
Mark is currently re-writing the entire Sherlock Holmes short stories for children, and these are available in multiple languages. Children's adaptations of other classics to follow.
Other works include "The Ten Best James Bond Movies...Ever!" countdown series and the travelogue-memoir series "West Africa Is My Back Yard".
Work is under way on two rom-com mystery series, "The Taj Mahal Mysteries" and "The China Town Mysteries", and the three-pronged "Margate Rock" comedy-mystery series comprising "The Last Resort" (the DCI Camllla Quaif Mysteries), "Brailsford & Brailsford" lawyer mysteries and James Patterson, P.I., a private investigator series set in and around Margate.
Other pending fiction works include "Puppy Dogs' Tails", the chilling sequel to "Sugar & Spice" and "Cold Blood".
Up and coming narrative non-fiction works include the "Romps Through History" series, starting with a study of Henry VIII, a geography series as yet untitled looking at how the physical world around us has shaped our lives.
Mark Williams is an authority on the global ebook markets and will shortly be publishing two books focussing on the lucrative opportunities emerging in China and India.
Novelist, TV scriptwriter, playwright and freelance travel-writer, Mark Williams is a British ex-pat living in The Gambia, West Africa.
Author of the international best-selling novels "Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story", currently marketed`under the Saffina Desforges brand, and co-author with Saffina of the "Rose Red" crime thriller series.
The French-translated Sugar & Spice topped the charts in France, and a Chinese translation of "Sugar & Spice" hit #1 on Kindle China in 2014.
"Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story" will be available in French, Spanish and Portuguese later this year.
Mark is currently re-writing the entire Sherlock Holmes short stories for children, and these are available in multiple languages. Children's adaptations of other classics to follow.
Other works include "The Ten Best James Bond Movies...Ever!" countdown series and the travelogue-memoir series "West Africa Is My Back Yard".
Work is under way on two rom-com mystery series, "The Taj Mahal Mysteries" and "The China Town Mysteries", and the three-pronged "Margate Rock" comedy-mystery series comprising "The Last Resort" (the DCI Camllla Quaif Mysteries), "Brailsford & Brailsford" lawyer mysteries and James Patterson, P.I., a private investigator series set in and around Margate.
Other pending fiction works include "Puppy Dogs' Tails", the chilling sequel to "Sugar & Spice" and "Cold Blood".
Up and coming narrative non-fiction works include the "Romps Through History" series, starting with a study of Henry VIII, a geography series as yet untitled looking at how the physical world around us has shaped our lives.
Mark Williams is an authority on the global ebook markets and will shortly be publishing two books focussing on the lucrative opportunities emerging in China and India.
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January 23, 2020
Die reeks het potensiaal, en ek hou van die verhaal. Maar daar was 'n hele paar basiese Afrikaanse woordorde-foute en grammatikafoute daarin. As die skrywer n bitjie meer versigtig is met die volgende book, sal hierdie reeks 'n baie goeie hulpmiddel wees vir sowel kinders as volwassenes.
The series has potential, and I love the story. But I found quite a few basic Afrikaans word order errors, as well as, grammar errors. If the author is a little more careful (with the editing) in the next book, this series will be a great learning tool for both children and adults.
The series has potential, and I love the story. But I found quite a few basic Afrikaans word order errors, as well as, grammar errors. If the author is a little more careful (with the editing) in the next book, this series will be a great learning tool for both children and adults.
June 9, 2020
We really enjoy reading this series together! This book, however, engaged her a little less. This wasn’t the editions fault, more to do with the lack of action and the fact it was much more talking and less could be done with the storyline. It improved at the end when it all came together and we could talk about our theories but probably not one to revisit.
June 7, 2015
A book read to children can still be a great way of creating bonds between generations. Not only through the awesome thing of sitting on the lap. We can exchange a lot with our children. As their thinking hasn’t been routinized and schematized yet, they can show us the amazing power of their curiosity, creativity and thinking out of the box. From our part, we can share our knowledge, experience and understanding, as books quite often need explanation, and sometimes consolation. The answer to the question, why the hell did the Queen want Snow White to be killed, cannot be Googled easily. And Google will not help with the sorrow of the Little Prince’s departure in any way.
But not every parent feels self-assured when it comes to emotions. For them, I would propose crime stories about Sherlock Holmes, re-written for children by Mark Williams.
Holmes and Watson are on the train. The great detective observes his watch for a moment and says:
Fifty-three and a half miles an hour. That is our current speed.” I stared at Holmes. “How can you possibly know that?” I asked. Holmes pointed to the telegraph poles that followed the railway. “If you know that each pole is sixty yards apart then the calculation is quite simple,” he said. I thought to myself, Only if you have a brain like Sherlock Holmes. Who else would know that each telegraph pole is sixty yards apart?
Well, people of our era also wouldn't know - Wikipedia would know. (And what is this telegraph thing anyway?) But our kids wouldn't bother calculating such things in their head - they have calculators on their smartphones. Or rather they wouldn't bother calculating at all, instead turning on GPS and letting it find the current speed. Returning to Holmes, whose adventures are based back in the 19th century, the reading parent would be able to explain to the child why food bought one day had to be eaten by the next day at the latest, why people needed candles, why knowing someone's name wouldn't help you find this person on Facebook. If the reading child already knows that it’s taken some time for humans to develop electricity, fridges and computers, it’s always good to have mum or dad around.
And let's hope, once convinced to use their imagination to see (in their mind’s eyes) such a great thinker as Sherlock in action, kids will find it attractive to use their brains, instead of mobile devices, to look for answers about reality.
"Sherlock for Kids: Silver Blaze" is available at OpenBooks.com, where you download and read first and then decide if and how much to pay. Price recommended by author is 0,99$, but you can contribute more if you wish.
Here you are: Sherlock for Kids: Silver Blaze at OpenBooks.com
But not every parent feels self-assured when it comes to emotions. For them, I would propose crime stories about Sherlock Holmes, re-written for children by Mark Williams.
Holmes and Watson are on the train. The great detective observes his watch for a moment and says:
Fifty-three and a half miles an hour. That is our current speed.” I stared at Holmes. “How can you possibly know that?” I asked. Holmes pointed to the telegraph poles that followed the railway. “If you know that each pole is sixty yards apart then the calculation is quite simple,” he said. I thought to myself, Only if you have a brain like Sherlock Holmes. Who else would know that each telegraph pole is sixty yards apart?
Well, people of our era also wouldn't know - Wikipedia would know. (And what is this telegraph thing anyway?) But our kids wouldn't bother calculating such things in their head - they have calculators on their smartphones. Or rather they wouldn't bother calculating at all, instead turning on GPS and letting it find the current speed. Returning to Holmes, whose adventures are based back in the 19th century, the reading parent would be able to explain to the child why food bought one day had to be eaten by the next day at the latest, why people needed candles, why knowing someone's name wouldn't help you find this person on Facebook. If the reading child already knows that it’s taken some time for humans to develop electricity, fridges and computers, it’s always good to have mum or dad around.
And let's hope, once convinced to use their imagination to see (in their mind’s eyes) such a great thinker as Sherlock in action, kids will find it attractive to use their brains, instead of mobile devices, to look for answers about reality.
"Sherlock for Kids: Silver Blaze" is available at OpenBooks.com, where you download and read first and then decide if and how much to pay. Price recommended by author is 0,99$, but you can contribute more if you wish.
Here you are: Sherlock for Kids: Silver Blaze at OpenBooks.com
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