How Billy Brown Saved the Queen by Alison Healy

How Billy Brown Saved the Queen by Alison Healy

Billy Brown is mystified to learn that the Queen does not understand a maths problem that is perfectly clear to him. It seems that nobody in the royal household, at court or anywhere in the Queen’s castles can explain the knotty problem to Her Majesty. And so Billy decides that the kind thing would be to go to the royal palace and explain it to her. He persuades his mother to drive him all the way to the palace, and he makes his way right into the Queen’s room and sits down on her bed to explain all about fractions and division. And he succeeds, where everyone before him has failed. The Queen is delighted. So delighted that she becomes firm friends with Billy and his mum and even comes to visit them in their humble abode …

This delightful book reads like a mashup of Sue Townsend's hilarious The Queen and I with bits of Roddy Doyle's Rover TrilogyAnd although it's lighthearted, it has an important message for kids who feel different and for those who are hopeless at sports. Generously sprinkled with gorgeous illustrations by Fintan Taite.

* Irish Independent *

A charming story about being proud of who you are.

* Mumzworld.com *

Mike Palecek is a writer who lives in Saginaw, Minnesota, west of Duluth. He is a former federal prisoner for peace; was the Iowa Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, 5th District in the 2000 election, gaining 65,000 votes on an anti-war platform in a conservative district; is a former award winning reporter, editor, publisher in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota. The small newspaper Mike & Ruth Palecek owned and operated in Byron, Minnesota won the MNA Newspaper of the Year Award in 1993. Mike and Ruth have two children and recently moved from Iowa to Minnesota. The Paleceks both work for group homes in the Cloquet area. Mike also co-hosts The New American Dream Radio Show along with Chuck Gregory. The show airs Thursdays, 8-10 p.m. Eastern Time on The Revolution Radio Network.

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ISBN 13	9781910411957
ISBN 10	1910411957
Title	How Billy Brown Saved the Queen
Author	Alison Healy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little Island
Year published	2018-04-05
Number of pages	112
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