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Location: Houston, Texas
Genre: Children´s fantasy
Published Works: Wumpleberries and Gronglenuts
Publisher Information: www.1stbooks.com/bookview/12375
Biography:
1950, July 20th, Graham John Burchell came into this world (two weeks late) in Canterbury, Kent, and met his mother and father for the first time.
1957, He started his first book. He was intent on becoming a famous child author...
2001, November – Finally finished his first book. It only took 44 years!
A few things happened in between of course. He went to school, then got one of those degree things, became a teacher, went and taught in interesting places like Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Tenerife, Mexico and France.
2003, February 16th – Began teaching in Santiago, Chile. Wumpleberries and Gronglenuts is finally published in April.
2004, February – Married a beautiful Texan woman and relocated to Houston.
Author's Links: http://www.wump.net
Excerpt
Moon was sat at one side of a wobbly wooden table. He was young and small with wide green eyes that seemed to be growing wider by the second. Burning wax from a fat muddle of a candle masked the dry woody smell in a room with little other furniture. An uneven yellow flame that sent night shadows dancing, lit the much older face of one Crumwin Shnort who was sat opposite. Here was a plump, balding man with a swollen beak of a nose covered with skin like beetroot-coloured orange peel. Trusty old Crumwin, a loyal friend of Moon's father who was now trying so hard to explain something to the boy. He was using all the words he could pick out of his head (and he couldn't pick many), to make his attentive listener understand.
"Try to imagine the most horrible uglumpy face you can," he slobbered. "Make yourself go dizzy with the effort of imagining it. Then, multiply that terrible uglumpiness by ninety four and double it. You still wouldn't be nowheres near picturing how truly hideous and ghastliferocious is the face that lives on the front of the head of one Menghis Bad-Baladin, the most vilest creature that did ever approximate human kind." Crumwin pulled his heavy black cape higher about his shoulders. "Aakh! There's a chill about this place," he complained. "Always was a chill about this place even like now in high summer."
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