Simon Skipaldino

A story of magic and mischief, with two boys and a box of magic tricks. They visit all sorts of places and get into all sorts of escapades finishing up capturing the burglar with the magic rope.A story o0f magic and mischief, with two boys and a box of magic tricks. They visit all sorts of places and get into all sorts of escapades finishing up capturing the burglar with the magic rope.

Simon and his little brother Timothy are delighted when his great uncle leaves Simo9n a box pf magic tricks which turn out to be real magic when he says 'the secret word'. The word, when said backwards undoes all the magic, unfortunately Timothy has a habit of saying it, unwittingly, at the most award moments. They get into all sorts of difficulties and visit lots of magic places, swimming in the sea with the Rock Turtle, seeing a rope maze and climbing a magic rope. The become hero's after capturing a burglar who was robbing their parents shop.

I am a grandmother of 81 trs. I write children's stories and poetry which I have done for the last ????? yrs. One of my poems won the National Poetry Competition in 2010 and I have been included in the Poet of the Year book for 2010. 2011 & 2012. I have two sons and one grand daughter. My husband is disabled as am I, we both use mobility scooters. I love gardening and photography and water colour painting. I like to keep myself busy, being idle is so boring.