About me
Ladies and gentlemen, children, and anyone who wandered in looking for the toilets.
Our guest today is Ken Trevena, the Umpteenth Laird of Camster. Nobody is quite sure how many Lairds came before him, and Ken prefers it that way.
Ken lives deep in the Northamptonshire countryside with two Dachshunds, Frankie and Monty, who are in charge, and a collection of horses, cows, sheep, chickens and rats, who are not. He is a thinker of the wonderfully sideways sort: the kind of man who looks at an ordinary afternoon and invents a new sport, which, in the case of Cross Country Croquet, is exactly what he did.
When his own children were small, Ken read them Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales: verses about children who lied, slammed doors, or chewed string, and came to deeply unfortunate ends. Years later he noticed that Belloc had left a few gaps. He never warned anyone about tablets at the dinner table, endless group chats, or pressing “Buy Now” at two in the morning.
So Ken has put that right. Cautionary Tales for the Modern Child is his first book for children, and it is a warning, in rhyme, to anyone under the age of a hundred.
Please welcome Ken Trevena.
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About the book
Meet Amélie, who sucked two fingers until she grew the teeth of a horse. Cameron, who mined and crafted day and night until he ended up in the garden wall. Clementine, who clicked “I Agree” without reading a word, and was promptly acquired by a firm in Shenzhen. And Jasper, last seen drifting over Basingstoke as a small pink cloud, smelling faintly of bubblegum.
