Glamorgan Gazette

Rustling up an adventure

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver turns author for a new children’s book full of magic, mystery and friendship

- JANET TANSLEYY Family Time Correspond­ent ndent

tures – including a community of sprites who need the children’s help!

With magical battles, a long-lost mythical city, flying machines, epic feasts – of course – and one giant rescue, it’s a fantastic tale that children TAKE a pinch of adventure, a dash of will love, and it’s further brought to life friendship, a sprinkle of mystery and a by stunning illustrati­ons from Monica huge dollop of magic… Armiño.

Jamie Oliver has been entertaini­ng Jamie based the book on a story he us in the kitchen for years, but now used to tell his own children, the bestsellin­g chef, author, and Buddy, Petal, and River, and has campaigner, has cooked up the dedicated it to children with perfect recipe for a pagedyslex­ia – which he has himself.turningchi­ldren’snovel!

In the heart-warming He says: “Growing up story, Billy and the Giant with dyslexia meant readAdvent­ure, Jamie also celing and writing didn’t ebrates food as a way of come easily, but rather bringing people together than holding me back, it’s and explores our responsibi­lonly ever helped me achieve ity to look after the world anything I’ve set my mind to. around us. “I look at things differentl­y, which

Billy knows that Waterfall Woods is has meant an overactive imaginatio­n out of bounds. – brilliant for being creative and com

Strange things are rumoured to have ing up with great stories for the kids at happened there and no one in the bedtime. So, I’m beyond excited to be village has ventured past its walls for publishing my first decades... children’s book.”

But when they discover a secret way in, Billy and his best friends, Anna, Jimmy, and Andy, can’t resist the temptation to go in, only to discover that the woods are brimming with magic and inhabited by unusual crea

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Billy and the Giant Adventure by Jamie Oliver, is out on April 13, £14.99 in hardback, aimed at aged 7+
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