Simon Weston OBE is a former British Army soldier who became well known after suffering severe injuries during the bombing of the RFA Sir Galahad in the Falklands War. After recovering from his initial injuries, he has worked tirelessly for charity and is now a well-known personality on radio and TV, and much in demand as an after dinner speaker throughout the UK. David Fitzgerald is the voice of Saturday mornings on BBC Radio Devon. He started out in radio in the early 1980s, before moving to TV, where he was at the front of nearly every major disaster reporting for Sky News. He is also an experienced writer, having scripted TV favourites such as The Bill and Spitting Image.
Nelson goes into training!
‘Help!’
Oh dear! It’s Rhodri, one of the overfed rats at the St Mary Dairy
in Pont-y-cary, and he’s stuck up a drainpipe. Rhodri’s not the
only one who’s been packing on the pounds. Nelson, always a
‘well-built’ carthorse, has also recently moved into the
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But he’s got a date with Brecon, the lovely presenter at Hoarse-FM,
to lead out the Welsh team at the Millennium Stadium. It’s time to
get fit!
Hay ho . . .
KEY SALES POINTS:
• A sequel to the highly successful A Nod from Nelson, Nelson to
the Rescue and Nelson at Sea which topped the WBC best-sellers list
and sold well across the UK.
• A humorous story with a real feel-good factor.
• Topical subject matter dealing with keeping fit.
• Useful for schools as the book’s key themes are fitness, image
and self confidence.
• Fantastic illustrations throughout reflect the laugh-out-loud
humour of the text.
*Publisher: Gomer@Lolfa*
Full of word-play and talking animals, this fourth story from the
pen of Simon Weston (with a little help from David FitzGerald and
illustrator Jac Jones) is laugh-out-loud funny. The characters are
enough to ensure humour. Not only do we have Nelson, the horse, but
we also meet two fat rats, a dizzy carrier pigeon, and a troop of
rugby-playing ducks (the All Quacks), led by Sir Francis Drake. But
it is the fat rats, Rhodri and Rhys, who start the story going by
Rhodri getting stuck in a down pipe. In an episode reminiscent of
Pooh Bear and the rabbit hole, Rhodri is finally extracted with
great difficulty, and the decision is made that the rats must lose
weight.
And it is not only the rats that have become more rotund. Nelson,
who is to lead the Welsh rugby team out onto the pitch at the
Millennium Stadium with the lovely Brecon, wants to lose weight
too. Their efforts are not at first successful, but when trainer
pig, Montgomery, takes them on, they are soon jogging with the best
of them. Montgomery has been in a fire, and his face and tail are
dramatically changed. Rhodri and Rhys find his appearance difficult
to accept, and in a serious part of the story, Montgomery explains
what has happened to him and that he has decided to ‘achieve
something ... something special’. In fact he has won first prize
for running in the ‘Special Olympigs’ and is a very special pig
indeed. The twin themes of getting fit and of accepting people as
they are must be of special interest to the author, and they make
this story ideal for schools. The animal friends have further
adventures at St Mary Dairy at Pont-y-cary, and the wonderfully
funny black and white pictures of Nelson and all his friends add
greatly to the fun. While children may not understand all the
word-play, their parents and teachers will enjoy it! This is a
charming, silly, waggish story – and beautifully produced too by
Pont Books.
*Elizabeth Schlenther @ www.gwales.com*
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