Book Will Help Sick Children To Smile

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. May 2007. Local author Jill Divine donates a copy of her new book Miles Smiles to the Children’s Centre at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

This inspirational children’s book tells the story of Miles the clown whose smile has been stolen. He must walk miles and miles to photograph happy people so that he can fill his balloon with their smiling faces and let their laughter burst out and wipe away his frown.

Jill has kindly donated a copy of the book to the children’s ward to encourage the children to smile during this difficult period, and hopefully make their parents smile too.

Jill hopes the book will enable children to understand how important a smile is, how it can help them to overcome fear and pain, and also how good they will feel when they do smile.

Twenty five percent of all royalties from this book will be donated to the Pied Piper Appeal, a local charity in Gloucestershire that helps raise money for vital child friendly equipment and arts enhancements for the children’s wards at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital. The equipment and environment the charity is funding is designed especially for children to distract them from their treatment, ease they fears and help them to recover faster.

The book (Miles Smiles, ISBN: 1846855136 and 978-1-84685-513-9) is published by Diggory Press and costs £4.99. Available to order from leading websites such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Play.com, Powells.com, Tesco.com, WH Smith, or from bricks and mortar bookstores in the UK or USA.

More about The Pied Piper Appeal (registered charity number 1011611) can be found on their website: www.piedpiperappeal.co.uk
More about Jill Divine, her writing, and her ‘smiles,’ can be found on her website: www.divinelady.co.uk