An East Kilbride major college pupil has continued her literary success with the discharge of her third guide.
Lengthy Calderwood Major pupil, Sophie Bicker, started her writing journey throughout final yr's lockdown with tales meant to entertain her household and bridge the bodily hole between them.
However what began as household tales initiated by class work from home, has actually take off for 10-year-old Sophie and co-author dad, Kenny.
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And with the third guide - Pee-Lee - launched, a fourth one can also be in growth.
Proud dad, Kenny, from St Leonards, informed Lanarkshire Stay: "Sophie revealed and launched her first guide, known as Sofo Rox, final yr
"With COVID restrictions, and never with the ability to see our household, she made the the guide a couple of magical land known as Bourbonville, the place all her household have been collectively.
"Since then she has written a Christmas story, known as the 'Good Checklist', which once more was about having the household all collectively.
"And in the previous couple of weeks she launched her third guide, known as Pee-Lee.
"The guide is about how her late granny introduced everybody collectively to create the magical land of Bourbonville.
"Her granny sadly died earlier than lockdown however she is referenced all through the books though she would not seem as a personality as such.
"Sophie has at all times been artistic and loves making up tales and drawing, she even likes working with me when I'm doing my wooden work.
"And with this newest guide she used an app on her iPad to do the illustrations. For the primary guide we obtained an organization to do the drawings for it nevertheless it was actually costly, so this time spherical it is all Sophie's personal drawings, which is beautiful and so they look actually good.
"It began with us sitting down when she needed to do classwork at dwelling and she or he needed to write a paragraph or two about members of the family.
"She was struggling a wee bit so we got here up with the answer of her making up a narrative, utilizing members of the family to create characters and it simply went from there.
"It was actually a little bit of enjoyable to be shared with the household as a result of we could not all be collectively however her grandad particularly was actually supportive and after a few tales we went to a publishing firm who took them on.
"And Sophie at all times ends her books with a 'to be continued', so she has a plot in thoughts already for the fourth guide."
To get a replica of Sophie and Kenny's books seek for Sofo Rox on amazon or go to the web site of the guide firm authorHouse.
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