The Ape and the Apple

The Island of the Imp

The Old Man and the Ostrich

fifth of a series of stories, supposedly a bit educational, told by Charlie Ashton

The Unicorn and the Ugly

second story of a group of five, told by Charlie Ashton

The Eagle and the Egg

The eighth in a series of vowel-stories by Charles Ashton designed to help guide children through the vagaries of vowels in the English language.

Hobble Yobble and God

The second in a series of vowel-stories by Charles Ashton designed to help guide children through the vagaries of vowels in the English language.

Charles Ashton writes children’s stories, adult books, poetry and some songs. Since the publication of Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire in 1990 (now Part 1 of the one-volume Dragon Fire trilogy), Charlie has produced various other published titles, all on (or in most cases now off) the “children’s market”: Billy’s Drift, Time Ghost, Ruth and the Blue Horse, The Giant’s Boot, The Boy who was a Bear, and The Snow Door. His latest effort, The Smoke People, is currently looking for a publisher in a world that seems to have turned cut-throat enough for the ‘nineties to seem like a lost time of bumbling gentlemanliness. Charlie has long since abandoned earlier attempts to establish himself as a Poet, and renders his activities in this field meaningful by writing poems dedicated to family or friends, thus ensuring some degree of (at least polite) feedback.