A child's picture book of a boy growing up in Sussex. With stories and illustrations from Sussex and the Southdowns. A shorter version of 'I am Michael Glare'.

The book has 44 chapters, 56 pages with over 176 individual illustrations hand-drawn by me, his dad, in pencil, watercolour and acrylic from original photos, ideas and sketches printed in full colour. Each chapter tells a little adventure from his life from a close encounter with a billy goat to being chased by a scarecrow over the Sussex Downs, south downs, all lovingly told with text and pictures.

He made friends with a Hedgehog, had lunch with some robots and saved a small spider. A little angel you must be thinking, but unfortunately he wasn't always like that when he was growing up, but he did try, well some of the time, just not very hard sometimes. This book has all the little stories that I remember and believe me there are a lot of them and I think they will make you smile and maybe a few tears here and there. This is the story of Michael, our amazing son who never gave up on life.

Michaels story was featured on BBC Radio Sussex, Sarah Gorrell show.

All profits from the sale of this book will be given to the NHS nurses in recognition of the kind help given to Michael who never stopped smiling and never gave up in his long hard four years in hospital.

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