This young fan had “Alfie’s Story” bought for him last year by his grandparents. His grandma wrote to me recently to tell me that, for the last few months, he has asked for the story almost every night as his bedtime read. He also sleeps with the Alfie cat toy. Grandma sent me this photo…
Here’s one of my fans sporting an amazing Easter hat, featuring his favourite character, Arkwright the duck. And he’s taken the trouble to draw one of my own favourite illustrations from the book: “the Tunnel that ROARS!” This young man recently went along to Cromford Mill with his classmates on a school outing. Whilst there,…
I was recently surprised to receive an email from Australia. Turns out that a very lovely grandmother who lives over there was on holiday in the UK last year and bought “Alfie’s Story” and an Alfie soft toy cat to go with it. Back in Oz, she gave them both to her grandson, Finn. What…
I’m so delighted that Lisa, one of the girls I met at Castle Hill in Bakewell years ago, now has her own florist shop called Rebecca Florist in Liskeard, Cornwall. Lisa has just agreed to sell my books and soft toys and is therefore my only stockist in Cornwall. Hope that if you’re ever in…
We received these lovely pictures and email recently from a very satisfied 9-month-old customer – well, from her Mum, of course. “She has all of a sudden become obsessed with Alfie, kissing him and hugging him all day long and she won’t let him leave her side. With only having one, I’m worried she’ll lose…
Arkwright the duck has been away on his travels – I think he calls it his “migration”. I didn’t know ducks migrated, did you? Anyway, he’s not been around for over a year and has just returned from the other side of the world. He’s delighted to be back and so are we! …because you can now…
My next book, “Owl to the Rescue”, is due to be published next month (October 2019), but the character soft toy – our heroic owl – has flown in ahead of the book and is already going down a storm with customers, young and old alike. Anyone who wants their own cuddly owl needs to…
Here is an extract from Acquisition International – 2019 Business Excellence Awards, published after Sue won the award for the second year running. Sue Wilkins: Best Children’s Storybook Author 2019 Sue Wilkins is a self-published author who draws on real life inspiration to create children’s books that resonate with adults and children alike. We invited her to…
We were recently at this lovely little craft fair at Heaton Fold garden centre in Bolton when Laurence came in from the car park to buy some sausages for tea. However, when he saw our books, he decided to spend his money on an illustrated children’s storybook for his little boy. So he bought Arkwright…
Sue has just received the 2018 Award for Best Children’s Storybook Author of the Year from the publisher, Acquisition International, the UK arm of Global Media Ltd. The organisation contacted her a while ago to say that someone had nominated her for one of their business excellence awards. At that time, they simply wanted to…
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