Chapter 12
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I hope you liked this story. I had fun writing it. After I wrote my first book “Sugar the Robot and the race to save the Earth” (you can read a sample chapter at the end of this book) I was planning on writing another Sugar the Robot story. I even had gathered some ideas from my family for it.
Things have a way of not always turning out how you expect though and one day I saw the words “Do not feed the troll” on a web forum. I’d seen them hundreds of times before but this time they caught my imagination. What if the troll was real? What does feeding it mean? What effect would having a troll in your garden have on your life?
Originally this story wasn’t going to include Sugar, Tim or Priya but as I started thinking about Martin meeting new friends I thought wouldn’t it be cool if they were the Roboteers.
From these questions, this story started to grow and then it kind of took on a life of its own – much like the troll did!
How do you imagine this story?
I’ve always found that I have a clear picture in my head of what the scenes in any story look like but a while ago I realised my picture wasn’t always the same as other people’s.
So just like with Sugar the Robot and the race to save the Earth I’ve asked my own children to do the illustrations for this book. Nearly all the pictures in this book are done by my children and very proud of them I am too!
If you would like to draw a picture of how you imagine scenes from this story - or if you have ideas for future stories about Sugar - you can share them with others at this website.
Footnote to the web version
This is a web version of the book Do Not Feed The Troll!. It is available in a number of formats to download as well as paperback and ebooks (for Kindle/iTunes) to buy.
