The new book from the award-winning Phil Earle author of Heroic & Being Billy' Have finished BUBBLE-WRAP BOY If happy tearssnot smeared across face were legal currency philearle would be rich So warm & so funny'
- Katherine Rundell author of Rooftoppers All my life I've been tiny Charlie from the Chinese Chippie whose only friend is Sinus the kid who stares at walls But I believe that everyone's good at something I've just got to work out what my something is Charlie's found his secret talent skateboarding It's his one-way ticket to popularity All he's got to do is practice & nothing's going to stop him
- not his clumsiness not his overprotective mum nothing Except Charlie isn't the only one in his family hiding a massive secret & his next discovery will change everything How do you stay on the board when your world is turned upside down? Phil Earle was born raised & schooled in Hull His first job was as a care worker in a children's home an experience that influenced the ideas behind Being Billy & Saving Daisy He then trained as a drama therapist & worked in a therapeutic community in south London caring for traumatized & abused adolescents After a couple of years in the care sector Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller & now works in children's publishing Phil lives in south-east London with his wife & children but Hull will always be home