The Blue Pen: Six individuals come in contact with a magical blue pen that changes their lives forever

by Charles Beagley

Overview

Melbourne author Charles Beagley has written a childrens book of subtle twists and turns and daring times. The story is woven with events and memories of his own childhood and life of adventure and these snippets have been cleverly woven together to take the young reader on a rich journey across the world.

The Blue Pen is an intriguing story of young love, hardship, tragedy and blind expectation. Each of the six stories, gives an intimiate glimpse into the lives of those who came in contact with an iridescent blue pen that changes their lives forever.
The story begins in England with a young nine year old boy, Billy Barnes and a girl called Janet - the pen becomes a token for his affection before the blue pen then travels through a battle in France and ends up in the hands of the Germans and saves the life of a Panzer Major. Its journey continues to the bloody shores of Tobruk in Turkey.
Found by an Aussie Digger in an abandoned tank on the battle field of Tobruk, the pen takes its next turn where fame, fortune and save a mans life.
Years later, Harry discovers the blue pen in an Op Shop and it brings him luck, until a sneeky Bowerbird decides otherwise. Eventually with the pen safely recovered, Harry gives his lucky pen to his grandaughter, only for it to disappear in Ballarat. Julia discovers the blue pen almost by chance and reunites it to its young owner. Julia is mysteriously drawn to the sparkly pen and learns of its adventurous history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648007050
Publisher:	Accentia Design
Publication date:	04/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	287
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	3 - 10 Years

About the Author

As a child in the London blitz, Charles Beagley distracted himself from the horror of his family's situation by making up stories or drawing. His eventual training was at Art School, which equipped him for the many years he spent working in advertising and design. He lived in London initially, did two years National Services in the RAF, worked in Ireland and Belgium and then set up and successful ran a Design Consultancy back in England for twenty years. He married and had two sons whose futures concerned him, as things were grim economically in 1982 England. He jumped at the opportunity to move his family to Australia when he was offered a managerial position in design. During his years in England, his writing developed as he wrote promotional text and an occasional short story. Since coming to Australia he has honed his skills, writing over twenty fictional stories, mainly mysteries with six books currently published. The Blue Pen is one such novel that has woven into its fabric, events of his own life and childhood.
Michelle Hessing has enjoyed an exciting and colourful career in graphic design, print production, editing and publishing for 25 years, including working on travel titles and calendars with Australian Geographic in Sydney. Michelle's passion is in assisting authors in creating that book they have always wanted to create. Michelle's business, Accentia Design, works with independent authors to guide them through the process and turn their manuscripts into eye-catching physical printed books to touch and hold or ePubs for electronic download.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE
Billy & Janet
The North East of England: 1939
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7

PART TWO
Jack & Eddie
Northern France: 1939 - 1940
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7

PART THREE
Major Frisch & Horst
France and Africa: 1940 – 1942
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7

PART FOUR
Jeff & Mitch
North Africa to Australia: 1942 – 1994
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6

PART FIVE
Harry & Paula
The Otway Ranges, Victoria: 1994 - 1998
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5

PART SIX
Julia & Bertie
Ballarat, Victoria: 1998
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Editorial Reviews

A story of young love, adventure through wars and a journey to Australia for more fun. This Blue Pen really gets around! and it gets up to all sorts of magical adventures. I read it to the kids at night before they go to bed and they loved it. It was handy it was broken into 6 stories so they had something to look forward to every night when I was reading to them. Good clean adventure for the littlies.

A lovely story that my daughter thought was fun to read, especially when the bower bird stole the pen. Good to see some Aussie content in these pages too.

A clever story line that my son thought was cool

I liked the part where the soldiers were in the war and hiding and the tanks part and the pen saved the mans life

I wish I had a magic pen like this one so I could go all over the world and be famous

From the Publisher