It’s Monday, a new week, a blank page, a task at hand. There are words inside books, waiting to be read and allowed to tell their stories, but words are needed to promote the books, so keys are tapped and words emerge, carefully peeping out to see…

Could it be true that words wait for something exciting to say…? Maybe they all want to be part of a story, and not just telling of the story already written.

So, come words, gather round and we shall see if we can work together to make book promoting fun. No, words, stop, I didn’t mean you could go into the books and disrupt what’s already written, no no don’t touch the punctuation, that’s what holds the whole thing together. The trick is to open the cover and slip inside the book, listen to the words on the page. They’ve been carefully crafted together with the pictures. They’re waiting as each page is turned, for their turn to tell their part of the story, before settling back onto the page, waiting for their next turn.

To open a book, is to release the story within, to reveal the words on the page and let them tell their story, painting pictures in the imagination as a story unfolds.

So let’s slip inside The Puppy in the Cat Carrier: the first page reveals a puppy, head on one side, trying to figure out the world, a world that has just been turned upside down. He’s with his siblings, but about to set off on an adventure of his own, one in which he may or may not be a cat…