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Carrie King

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Born

Luton, Bedfordshire, England, The United Kingdom

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http://www.joni-pip.com

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Genre

Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor

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December 2007

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Carrie King was born in the tiny Hamlet of Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire, England, which sits beneath a small hill smothered in trees, known as The Clappers, nestled on the edge of the Chilterns. To any Reader of The Life in the Wood with Joni-Pip that might sound a tad familiar!

She was the seventh of eight children, placed between her youngest brother, David and her youngest but older sister, Sylvia. When she was eight, her family moved to another tiny Hamlet in Bedfordshire called Bidwell. She so missed the woods and the hills.

Carrie was educated in Dunstable, Bedfordshire and Paris, France. English, Art and French were her favourite subjects but she decided to become a doctor! However, this didn’t happen, as she fell in love and was marri ...more

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Carrie King For 6 months of the year I live by the river in a tiny village called Felmersham. Believe me, I rarely go in Pubs but my sister-in-law called me borin…moreFor 6 months of the year I live by the river in a tiny village called Felmersham. Believe me, I rarely go in Pubs but my sister-in-law called me boring and invited me to tag along with her and her husband to the only Pub in the Village called, 'The Sun'. I went up to the bar to order some drinks (yes, I paid), when a guy said to me, 'You're Carrie King, aren't you? I loved reading Joni-Pip. Could you please set your next Joni-Pip Adventure in Bletchley Park?'

I was non-plussed as I had no idea who was talking to me. I just smiled politely as he continued. 'As Joni-Pip is set in WW2, I think it would be great to have a kid's adventure there.'

I thanked him for his interest and said I was pleased he enjoyed Joni-Pip but I was already over a hundred pages into BOOK TWO of The Circles Trilogy, Life by the Sea with Joni-Pip.'

The guy was persistent and asked if I would like to visit Bletchley Park and he would show me round.

If any of you don't know anything about Bletchley Park, I will briefly make mention of its Historic place in WW2. It is known as 'Home of the Code Breakers'. It is placed equidistant from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. GCHQ (The Government Communications Headquarters: a British intelligence and security agency), selected and invited men and women from these universities (and other hand-picked brainy candidates), to come and work at Bletchley Park, decyphering messages sent from the German and Japanese High Command. The incredible work done at Bletchley Park is said to have shortened the war by 2 years!

I accepted the invitation from the guy at the bar and was duly shown around this remarkable place. I was hooked, even as I was shown around my mind was imagining Joni-Pip here. I went back many times for research and finally agreed to postpone the writing of BOOK TWO, moving it to BOOK THREE and commenced writing the new BOOK TWO, which I called, 'Joni-Pip and the Bletchley Park Project'.

By the way, the guy at the bar? He was the then Managing Director of Bletchley Park, Simon Greenish! (less)

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Average rating: 4.6 · 30 ratings · 24 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Joni-Pip 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life in the Wood with Joni-Pip Picture Book 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Book of Short Stories & True by Carrie King (Goodreads Author), Rebekah French (Designer), David Durnford (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Long Time no see or hear!

Well, hello and greetings to all of you from London!

It has been a long time since I posted anything on Goodreads! It is only because I have been invited to be a Panelist on 'The Bed's Book Review', for TV Bedfordshire and they asked me to check out the Genres listed here that I logged on and found 186 Friend Requests which I knew nothing about. Sorry all of you, I hope I have 'approved' of you all Read more of this blog post »

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Quotes by Carrie King (?)

“Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak”
― Carrie King

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“More hugs, less thugs.”
― Carrie King, The Life in the Wood with Joni-Pip

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“Keep going, keep going, anything worthwhile is rarely achieved without a measure of fear.”
― Carrie King, Joni-Pip

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Carrie’s Quotes

“Love never reasons but profusely gives......gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little. ”
― Hannah More

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“Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.”
― Sir Walter Scott

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“Grandchildren are the best Invention since Apples”
― Carrie King

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“Keep going, keep going, anything worthwhile is rarely achieved without a measure of fear.”
― Carrie King, Joni-Pip

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