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Hi, and welcome to my website.

There’s lots of great news to share with you all.

Project Puffin book cover


The fourth and final Major and Mynah adventure is out now! In Project Puffin, the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives are in a race to solve a new mystery. When they discover puffins coated in waste oil that has been dumped in the sea, they must find out who is to blame. Can our intrepid trio crack the case before more damage is caused to precious sea life and the Welsh coastline?
 
To celebrate its publication, I ran a competition to design a poster that will encourage us all to care for our precious environment. See the winning entries here.
 
Read here about how Skomer Island inspired me and why caring for our environment is so important in my blog post for the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. Project Puffin is published by Firefly Press, illustrated by Louise Forshaw, and perfect for readers age 6+. Buy the book here or at a bookshop near you.

Disaster Dad number two book cover


The second in my Disaster Dad series is a Number One bestseller in Ireland! Fun Day Fiasco is a laugh-out-loud family story for readers aged 6+, packed with welly-throwing, wacky races and a NO DOUGHNUTS training diet. I’ve written it alongside Irish rugby legend and TV star Donncha O’Callaghan.

Major & Mynah with Blue Peter Book Club Logo


The first Major and Mynah adventure is a Blue Peter Book Club read and it featured on the BBC TV children’s show in the summer. Four lucky readers got to fly in a helicopter on their quest to solve some tricky clues and find the treasure. You can see their fantastic animation and check out the BBC Bitesize guide to the book here.
 

 

Happy reading,

Karen Owen