The Children's Society

And during that time, I had been invited to help with the production of a book called Dennis Stuckley, which was the very first one.

That started when I was with the Children's Society.

The original Dennis Duckling had actually been done by a lady called Barbara Orrett, which had gone out of print.

I was asked to review it, update it, and revive it, which I did, and that was through the Children's Society.

That then went out of print, and then Coram Baff contacted me in early 2004-ish, and and asked if I would consider reviewing it again and reviving it.

So that was my first publication with Colin Bath, Dennis Duckling, which was about a duck that goes into foster care.

But I'm aware that we didn't come on to talk about, I feel like I've got a lot more questions, but I'll park them because I'm sure Scott has questions about the book you've written, which is, I think is a, For me, the subject of siblings is, it sort of feels like it's wheeled out by the media intermittently and we see these heartfelt appeals, do not separate these siblings, and it pulls on us and it feels like a really quite a... complicated issue to kind of talk around with children with families as well but um so over to you scott question man

wow wow thank you for that i'm really appreciative of you giving me the time to speak on my own podcast but anyway um paul so i mean first of all can you can you give us a like a little background as to how you got involved in writing because you know it's uh i've got subsequent questions to come obviously but give us an give us an insight as to how you got involved in this