Glenn Ashton

Glenn Ashton is the pen name for Ashton Glenn van Schalkwyk. Glenn writes interesting books, including for children (LittleTown Combo One, Ant and Lily, and this book, Lily Meets the Six Santas, all found on Amazon as printed books and eBooks). This book tells the story of Lily, who wants to see Santa's Workshop in the North Pole. After going through the mouth of a stone monster, she meets a Broomrider named Little Broom, and they fly off on her broomstick to see the toys being made. Lily meets not just one Santa, but SIX of them (and that's a secret ). There were SEVEN Santas, but Little Broom was stung by a bee and made a mistake ...She listens to Brown Santa sing along with the frogs playing in the Froompah Froompah Easy on Our Ears Band. She learns what kids who want Santa to bring them a present have to do to get their names in Santa's Good Book or Santa's Lucky Book, and how being in the magic Lucky Circle of a fairy can help them do this. Then Lily flies off with Little Broom and Santa's sleigh to deliver presents to kids all over the world, along with the 600 in the Band of Fellow Fliers (Little Broom calls them BOFFs).

Your journey May you both go on a journey along with some small animals to their new town, where they can live in peace and safety. The animals You will meet water shrews, beavers, deer mice, flying squirrels, grasshopper mice, jackrabbits, marmots, kangaroo rats, muskrats, packrats, pocket gophers, prairie dogs, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, starnosed moles, voles and woodchucks. The LittleTowners You and the child will sit at the feet of Grace the Librarian, the gentle little deer mouse, as her wise words shape the little ones. Feel her fear as little blind Vola, the flying squirrel, has to learn to fly all over again. Watch an angry Teacher gnaw down tree after tree with his huge beaver teeth to remove mistakes made by the grasshopper mice twins, He and Me. See the brave mole, once swept along by the oil in a pipeline, rule over the LittleTown court as The Judge. Discover how the smart, bubbly water shrew Pal Silver saves Ms Muskrat, who is trapped under water in a cage. And you will both wince with the little ones as they are injected with a huge syringe on Get-Well-Hill to save them from the plague, and laugh with them as they learn to play football with an acorn. Follow Kanga the Kangaroo Rat as he fights a rattlesnake that crept into his burrow. Laugh with them as they help Mr Packrat bargain for a telephone. Listen when The Chicago Kid faces a trial presided over by The Judge. Plot with the two little voles, Timid Timmy and Timid Tania, to trap a weasel. Visit Chien's Thumbs, the hidden studio of the little prairie dog where his portraits are kept secret for as long as his models want them to be. Listen to The Chicago Kid explain the adventures his friend had at the President's White House, and find out why the first pocket gopher born in LittleTown was named Talpo. Children up to 12 (perhaps older) will enjoy the tangled webs the LittleTowners weave as they grapple with life in their new home.

Ant and Lily is the story of the quest by a two year old girl for a green ant as a friend. Along the way she encounters obstacles and characters, and overcomes all. The text is in rhyme, and the images are amusing, colorful and unusual. Its 50 pages will delight young readers when they see each new image.

Small Steps to Bigger Book Sales is for every author with books to sell, or anyone who wishes to improve their participation in social networks. You will be guided to do 20 Tasks, as part of your very own Small Steps Plan to market your books. You will start with the first 10 tasks over 3 months and the next 10 over the next next 6 months. Then you review and revise your next Small Steps Plan. You will prepare a book promotion plan that will show you how to take methodical, small steps every week to market your books where they stand the best chance of being bought by readers. You will learn how to: -create your Dream Team of advisors to help you every step of the way; -define your Target Readers, so that you can fashion hooks to persuade them to buy your books; -find and use many of top social network forums, where readers and writers mix, so that you can build your own team of supporters, your very own friendship group or Clan; -get reviews of your books; -use other social networks tools easily and effectively; and do all this at your own speed and in the free time you have. In Chapter 25 you have a template for your own Small Steps Plan, designed to make it easy for your to prepare your first plan. Chapter 26 has a very detailed 120-item Weekly Engagement Checklist.