Book one of our Storytelling in Schools sessions for reading & writing inspiration
Never EVER Open Indoors!
Waking up in a hospital bed with two broken legs was the last thing that teenage misfit, Peter Oddfellow, expected but this was only the beginning!
A strange and enigmatic visitor, a bad-tempered cat, a beautiful Forest Princess and an old umbrella, no good for anything … or was it?
Peter Oddfellow is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, where things are rarely as they seem, least of all his own identity.
The Extraordinary Happenings of Peter Oddfellow: The Old Umbrella is a fantasy novel for teenagers and young adults.
340 pages of high adventure and roller coaster page turning action!
Produced and printed right here in the UK.
The Extraordinary Happenings of Peter Oddfellow: The Old Umbrella is also available to read as an eBook on Amazon.
For International Orders you can read this great adventure as an eBook on Amazon, but if you still prefer a signed copy, please contact tomsercat@gmail.com for postage rates.
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Here's a Review from LoveReading
The Extraordinary Happenings of Peter Oddfellow: The Old Umbrella by Mark Dorey is part of the wider Extraordinary Happening of Peter Oddfellow series. In this first book, ‘The Old Umbrella’ we are introduced to Peter Oddfellow and join him on his adventure into a strange new world with the help of a rather useless looking umbrella.
This is a very imaginative fantasy novel that I think will be a great read for teens and adults alike. 14-year old Peter doesn’t feel like he fits in, and after waking up in hospital with two broken legs and amnesia he doesn’t expect to be transported on an adventure with a motley crew of friends. I really enjoyed this book. I found all of the characters, their clashing personalities that still managed to come together when needed, entertaining and funny. I particularly liked Mulg and found his disgust at his feline form quite funny.
The events of the novel, while Peter is in a world we would all find familiar, is set in the 1980s, which I found to be an interesting element and made the story feel more traditional to me. A little bit Narnia-esque, ‘The Old Umbrella’ leaves everything perfectly ready for the next book in the series ‘The Red Leaf’, and I think that readers enchanted by this book will have found a great new series to follow. I would recommend this book to fans of teen and YA fantasy adventures.
Our Biggest Adventure yet
13 years in the making
From initial inspiration to final published book took 13 years.
16 Drafts
This adventure took 16 re-writes to get it just right (or should that be 'write')!
A third smaller
Peter Oddfellow was originally 110,000 words in the first draft, but gradually whittled down to 76,000 words by the 16th draft, and yet by going through the book over and over has meant that there's so much more detail in the finished story than when it was first started!
For Young Adults (and their parents too)!
This is a great read for Young Adults and older readers too - just take a look at Callie and her Mum's book reviews below ...