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    Sleezy the Fox and Douglas the Dragon Omnibus

    By William Forde

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    Of all the fifty plus children’s books I have published since 1990 and from all of the stories I have ever written, the two most popular with children, teachers, parents, schools and libraries have been the stories of ‘Sleezy the Fox’ and ‘Douglas the Dragon.’ They were also the most popular of all my stories that the late Princess Diana used to read to her children, Princes William and Harry when they were aged 9 and 7 years of age after she phoned me and requested that I send her copies. It is nice to know that one’s stories has been read by a future King of England.

    The reasons why these two story characters have proved to be the most popular and enduring of my works is a combination of both my life experiences and the story themes. The theme of the Sleezy the Fox stories is one of ‘Second Chances’ along with ‘Discrimination against Immigrants.’ The theme of ‘Douglas the Dragon’ is one of anger management and the consequences of anger excess being inappropriately expressed.

    With regard to both overarching themes, I am suitably qualified to comment on and write about each. My work upon Indian, African and Jamaican stories were praised by Nelson Mandela, who phoned me and described the stories as ‘Wonderful.’ The overall quality of my writing was described by Chris Woodhead to the press (as a former Chief Inspector of Schools for Ofsted), as being of ‘High quality literature.’ As a growing boy, I was a persistent thief who required many second chances before I became a Probation Officer as an adult in West Yorkshire. As an 18-year-old youth who was the youngest textile shop steward in Great Britain in 1960 when racial prejudice within the country was rampant, I brought over 200 workers out on strike because of the employer’s refusal to hire a West Indian man on the sole grounds that ‘he was black.’ The man had applied for a job vacancy that the firm had advertised. As a young Probation Officer in 1971, I began working predominantly with people who displayed uncontrollable aggressive behaviour and after researching my work and the response patterns of many hundreds of aggressive clients, I founded a successful process of working with aggressive people that I freely gave to the world. This process that I founded became known as ‘Anger Management’ in Great Britain in 1971 and within a matter of a few years, this type of course had mushroomed across the English speaking world.

    ‘Sleezy the Fox Omnibus’’ is a book of four stories about the overarching theme of ‘second chances’. On the surface it deals with the immigration of a married couple and their seven children into a strange country, the bullying by neighbours, the ostracizing of offenders from the community as a whole and the alienation that often exists between man and wild beast and beast and wild man!

    ‘Douglas the Dragon Omnibus’ is a book of four stories about the overarching theme of ‘Anger and Aggression’ that becomes uncontrollable. ‘Douglas the Dragon’ symbolises the power of love that lives in each of us and he represents the constant struggle between the forces of good and evil in the behaviour we display.

    The ‘Sleezy the Fox’ and the ‘Douglas the Dragon’ stories became so popular that Plays of each have now been written and published. Their popularity eventually led to all four ‘Sleezy the Fox’ stories being published in an omnibus edition and all four ‘Douglas the Dragon’ stories being published in omnibus edition also.

    For the first time ever, both ‘Sleezy the Fox Omnibus’ and ‘Douglas the Dragon Omnibus’ have been combined into one giant-sized volume entitled, ‘Sleezy the Fox and Douglas the Dragon Omnibus.’

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Forde
    Release dateAug 11, 2012
    ISBN9781476184524
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    William Forde

    William Forde was born in Ireland and currently lives in Haworth, West Yorkshire with his wife Sheila. He is the father of five children and the author of over 60 published books and two musical plays. Approximately 20 of his books are suitable for the 7-11 year old readers while the remainder are suitable for young persons and adults. Since 2010, all of his new stories have been written for adults under his 'Tales from Portlaw' series of short stories. His website is www.fordefables.co.uk on which all his miscellaneous writings may be freely read. There are also a number of children's audio stories which can be freely heard.He is unique in the field of contemporary children's authors through the challenging emotional issues and story themes he addresses, preferring to focus upon those emotions that children and adults find most difficult to appropriately express.One of West Yorkshire's most popular children's authors, Between 1990 and 2002 his books were publicly read in over 2,000 Yorkshire school assemblies by over 800 famous names and celebrities from the realms of Royalty, Film, Stage, Screen, Politics, Church, Sport, etc. The late Princess Diana used to read his earlier books to her then young children, William and Harry and Nelson Mandela once telephoned him to praise an African story book he had written. Others who have supported his works have included three Princesses, three Prime Ministers, two Presidents and numerous Bishops of the realm. A former Chief Inspector of Schools for OFSTED described his writing to the press as 'High quality literature.' He has also written books which are suitable for adults along with a number of crossover books that are suitable for teenagers and adults.Forever at the forefront of change, at the age of 18 years, William became the youngest Youth Leader and Trade Union Shop Steward in Great Britain. In 1971, He founded Anger Management in Great Britain and freely gave his courses to the world. Within the next two years, Anger Management courses had mushroomed across the English-speaking world. During the mid-70's, he introduced Relaxation Training into H.M. Prisons and between 1970 and 1995, he worked in West Yorkshire as a Probation Officer specialising in Relaxation Training, Anger Management, Stress Management and Assertive Training Group Work.He retired early on the grounds of ill health in 1995 to further his writing career, which witnessed him working with the Minister of Youth and Culture in Jamaica to establish a trans-Atlantic pen-pal project between 32 primary schools in Falmouth, Jamaica and 32 primary schools in Yorkshire.William was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1995 for his services to West Yorkshire. He has never sought to materially profit from the publication of his books and writings and has allowed all profit from their sales (approx £200,000) to be given to charity. Since 2013, he was diagnosed with CLL; a terminal condition for which he is currently receiving treatment.In 2014, William had his very first 'strictly for adult' reader's novel puiblished called‘Rebecca’s Revenge'. This book was first written over twenty years ago and spans the period between the 1950s and the New Millennium. He initially refrained from having it published because of his ‘children’s author credentials and charity work’. He felt that it would have conflicted too adversely with the image which had taken a decade or more to establish with his audience and young person readership. Now, however as he approaches the final years of his life and cares less about his public image, besides no longer writing for children (only short stories for adults since 2010), he feels the time to be appropriate to publish this ‘strictly for adults only’ novel alongside the remainder of his work.In December 2016 he was diagnosed with skin cancer on his face and two weeks later he was diagnosed with High-grade Lymphoma (Richter’s Transformation from CLL). He was successfully treated during the first half of 2017 and is presently enjoying good health albeit with no effective immune system.

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