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Feb. 05, 2015
Prue Keen
Biography
I grew up avidly reading fiction and fantasy.
Myths and legend from all over the world were a favorite. So much so, my fantastical world was more real than reality.
Then I became an adult and went to work and the real world took over, but all the time I was thinking that making up stories (preferably fantasy) or making gardens would be more fun. Both involve creating worlds within which to escape.
Kids’ story making
So I when I was asked for stories by the 4 and 5 year old children in my life, I found a reason to return to my childhood world of myth and fantasy and write kids’ books. My first books 'Pearl Magic', 'Tiger Magic' and ‘Golden Magic’ in the children's series 'Riding the Lung-Wang, King Dragons of China' are a step in the right direction.
Rosamund and her Fairy Garden builds on the theme.
Garden making
I also love gardens and always have. Partly this is around plants which I have been involved in since I studied biology at school and botany, town planning and landscape design at college but mostly it is about the way we live in our homes today. My Garden business, Inside Out, gave me experience with small garden escapes in busy inner-city Sydney.
Today I live in an apartment and don’t have a garden of my own. Sad, so I indulge in my passions for gardens, travel and writing through my websites and books. I visit and photograph heaps of gardens – over 250 this year and have lots more in mind for the future.
www.pruekeen.com
Myths and legend from all over the world were a favorite. So much so, my fantastical world was more real than reality.
Then I became an adult and went to work and the real world took over, but all the time I was thinking that making up stories (preferably fantasy) or making gardens would be more fun. Both involve creating worlds within which to escape.
Kids’ story making
So I when I was asked for stories by the 4 and 5 year old children in my life, I found a reason to return to my childhood world of myth and fantasy and write kids’ books. My first books 'Pearl Magic', 'Tiger Magic' and ‘Golden Magic’ in the children's series 'Riding the Lung-Wang, King Dragons of China' are a step in the right direction.
Rosamund and her Fairy Garden builds on the theme.
Garden making
I also love gardens and always have. Partly this is around plants which I have been involved in since I studied biology at school and botany, town planning and landscape design at college but mostly it is about the way we live in our homes today. My Garden business, Inside Out, gave me experience with small garden escapes in busy inner-city Sydney.
Today I live in an apartment and don’t have a garden of my own. Sad, so I indulge in my passions for gardens, travel and writing through my websites and books. I visit and photograph heaps of gardens – over 250 this year and have lots more in mind for the future.
www.pruekeen.com
Where to find Prue Keen online
Where to buy in print
Tiger Magic
Golden Magic
Books
Humpty Dumpty's Son
by Prue Keen
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 1,370.
Language:
English.
Published: October 12, 2014
by
Publish Simply.
Categories:
Fiction » Children’s books » Nursery Rhymes
This wonderful work by WW Denislow is a tongue in cheek story about Humpty's Son.
Humpty Dumpty's Son yearns to travel far and wide but he is worried his thin shell will crack and break like his fathers' through such risky voyages. Follow Humpty as he works to overcome his worries and lives the life he desires.
Golden Magic
by Prue Keen
Series: Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 11,570.
Language:
English.
Published: September 18, 2014
by
Publish Simply.
Categories:
Fiction » Children’s books » Imagination & Play, Fiction » Children’s books » Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
This is the third book in the exciting series, Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China.Marc and Ethan and their feisty King Dragons must climb to the highest peak in the icy Caucasus Mountains to meet the scary Sleepless Dragon and then use her Golden Fleece to lure the Treasure Dragon out of his caves. How else will they save their friends from his steel cages and snakes.
Tiger Magic
by Prue Keen
Series: Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 8,360.
Language:
English.
Published: September 16, 2014
by
Publish Simply.
Categories:
Fiction » Children’s books » Imagination & Play, Fiction » Children’s books » Interactive Adventures
In Tiger Magic, the second book in the series, 'Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China', Marc and Ethan and their dragons put the team together to battle the Treasure Dragon.and find themselves riding crocodiles through disgusting, snaky swamps to battle tigers in their forest.
Pearl Magic
by Prue Keen
Series: Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China, Book 1.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 10,290.
Language:
English.
Published: September 8, 2014
by
Publish Simply.
Categories:
Fiction » Children’s books » Imagination & Play
In this first story Pearl Magic, Ping and Yu train Marc and Ethan to become dragon riders so they can be given the magic of the pearl and the pearl’s dragon rider powers.