The Hair-Raising Kite Flight

Hedley Griffin

Jun 2011 · Dangerspot Book 8 · Andrews UK Limited

About this ebook

Harey and his friends, including Pillow, the parrot, go out flying their kite dangerously close to an electricity pylon with disastrous results.

About the author

Hedley was born in Mauritius of English parents and came to England when he was only a few months old. Growing up in Sussex he spent the first thirty years living around Haywards Heath and Lewes and then moved to Suffolk in 1989 where he now lives with his wife and three dogs. His two children and six grandchildren live in Sussex. Having spent 30 years as an animation director, much of this time working for BBC and Channel 4 Schools Television, Hedley now self-publishes his own children's books on child safety. Some of the BBC programmes he worked on included “On The Road”, “The Worm That Turned”, “Vision On”, “You and Me”, “Words and Pictures”, “Words and Pictures Plus”, “Writing and Pictures”, “Storytime”, “Le Club - Les Aventures de Globo”, and “Watch”. Channel 4 credits include “Maths Mansion”, “Rat-a-Tat-Tat”, “Word Machine”, and “Arts Cart”.