Some of you already know about my Mum's poem.. I have talked about it on here before and on the old channel 4 site.
My mum wrote a poem at school... This poem
If You Should Meet A Crocodile
by Christine F Fletcher
If you should meet a crocodile
Don't take a stick and poke him;
Ignore the welcome in his smile,
Be careful not to stroke him.
For as he sleeps upon the Nile,
He thinner gets and thinner;
Whene'er you meet a crocodile
He's ready for his dinner.
we only discovered it had been published hundreds & hundreds of times worldwide 6 years ago (I discovered it in a book I was reading to my son), but it always had "anon" by it.
Claiming it at hers has been really really really difficult. more difficult than you'd think. Its taken us 6 years! (6 years where the publishing houses have kept churning it out... refusing to accept it as hers).
Finally.. FINALLY!! We've done it. All but 2 publishers now accept it as hers. I have now seen the first few books with it in print with her name under it. Now the final few publishers will have to recognise her as the author!
Linky to a recent review about her story.
Linky to her website telling her story