Jude Lennon

Jude Lennon

Biography

Jude Lennon is a former Early Years teacher who now works as a Storyteller under the name Little Lamb Tales. She tells stories at Primary schools, community events, festivals and libraries. Jude is also an Amazon best selling children?s author and is the current Disney Winnie the Pooh Laureate for the North West. Jude published her first book, The Dragon of Allerton Oak in 2015. Although this story was set in her local park in Liverpool it has been purchased across the UK and as far afield as Australia and New Zealand. Since then, Jude has gone on to publish ten further books including a series of books about her storytelling mascot Lamby, a Mindfulness book for Children and her most recent book Hal and the End Street, an Awesome About Autism book written with Hal’s Books. Jude has written two books for the Bobby Colleran Trust to support their Slow Down For Bobby road safety campaign. These books are called “Super Bob” and “S.T.O.P: SuperBob Tells Off Parents”. A proud member of Team Author UK, Jude provides a range of courses and writing retreats including – 6 Week Creative Writing Course; Preparing for an author visit; Workshops at the Wrexham Writing group; Weekend writing retreats at Alkington Grange Barns. She feels that spreading the joy of books, words and stories is the best job in the world.

 

Website

Genre

Children’s picture books

 

Publications & Performance History

September 2015 – The Dragon of Allerton Oak November 2015 – The Toffee Lady (a special commission for Everton in the Community) June 2016 – Astronaut Lamby (Amazon Best Seller in category) September 2016 – SuperBob, a special commission for the Slow Down for Bobby Trust October 2016 – Glad to Be Dan, a mindfulness for children book written in collaboration with Jo Howarth (Amazon top ten seller in category) November 2016 – Am I Nearly There Yet? A bilingual book written in collaboration with Kelly Thornhill (Amazon best seller in category) March 2017 – SuperBob S.T.O.P a special commission for the Slow Down for Bobby Trust June 2017 – Floga with Flossie (Amazon top ten seller in category) September 2017 – Pirate Lamby and His Woolly Crew (Amazon top ten seller in category) November 2017 – Fernando Can Tango a collaboration with Kelly Thornhill. (Amazon best seller in category) March 2018 – Hal and the End Street, an Awesome About Autism chapter book written in collaboration wit Hal’s Books (Amazon no 1 best seller in category)

 

Workshop & Reading Experience

18 years teaching experience in the Primary Sector. Since starting my business four years ago I have run numerous courses for Team Author UK, The Carnival of Words Festival and Blend of Words festival. Each week I visit Primary schools across the North West delivering Slow Down For Bobby assemblies. To date I have spoken to over 50,000 children. I have delivered book readings and storytelling sessions for The Children’s University, libraries, Maghull Literacy festival, Shropshire County Show, Southport Food and Drink Festival and I will be at the Southport Flower Show this summer. I spend lots of time delivering workshops to children in Primary schools all with excellent feedback which you can see on my website. I am a Learning Destination for the Children’s University and an official Patron of Reading.

 

Reference

Mrs Sue Miller founder of Team Author UK. Please email Sue.Miller@teamauthoruk.co.uk Mrs Joanne Colleran founder of The Bobby Colleran Trust. Please email thebobbycollerantrustfund@outlook.com

 

Group size preference

I’m very flexible about this so whatever is comfortable for the venue.

 

Group age preference

Although my books are aimed at 3-6 year olds I have delivered my talks to all ages. 3-6 for my book readings Any age for Author talks

 

Working languages

English

 

Area prepared to travel

The North West – Liverpool, Merseyside, Wirral, Warrington, Widnes, St Helens, Halton etc. Anything within a 30 mile radius (due to petrol costs)

 

Other information

As part of the Awesome About Autism book, myself, illustrator Will and Will’s mum were interviewed for BBC North West. Here is the clip… https://www.facebook.com/BBCNW/videos/1870598856304501/UzpfSTMyOTEyMDUxNDE2MDcwODozNTQyODgxOTE2NDM5NDA

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