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Dakota Douglas was born and grew up in Newcastle, North-East England. She is a retired newspaper reporter, now following her childhood dream of being a novelist.
As a kid she read books under the bedclothes by torchlight. Now she dives under the covers, torch in hand, to scribble down conversations between her book characters in case she forgets them in the morning. She has written stories since she was about eight years old. She wrote them on a toy typewriter and her dad did the illustrations.
When she wasn't pounding on her typewriter, she was found smashing a tennis ball against the brick end of a block of garages beside her home. For hours on end she perfected her lob, backhand and forehand shots - all the time spinning stories in her head.
She gets inspiration for her stories from dreams. ANTics, her first novel, is a story for children, aged seven plus. It's based on a dream after watching a group of ants carry a potato crisp back to their nest.
Reviewed by Author Anna del C. Dye for Readers' Favorite
This is a really cool story about a kingdom of ants whose inhabitANTS have the most creative names I have ever seen. This intriguing and fun story is quite refreshing, and a cute concept for the children’s market. "ANTics" is a well-done tale that will enchant boys and girls in elementary school and some older kids too. "ANTics" is a great written work that will teach love, friendship and unity to our kids. These are values that many children don’t have these days when parents don’t have the time to teach them. The story starts when one ant named ExuberANT is trying to take a short cut on his way to his friend, BrilliANT's, who awaits impatiently on the other side. He chooses to disobey orders and crosses the human family’s patio where many other ants have found death under the shoes of the two-footed people. He learned that day that rules are placed for a good reason.
But that isn’t what the book is about. The story gets better when these two ants befriend a lonely, small, picked-on ant by the name HesitANT. Between the three, they get in trouble by making their deathly enemy, RepugnANT, mad. He is a huge magical spider. The beast is cruel, strong, and deadly. The three friends are chased, trapped, and almost drowned in the pages of this book, all the way to a very interesting end — where you will find the real hero in the story.
"ANTics" has all the important ingredients to make it a favorite of parents, teachers, and children alike. I recommend it for any private or public library. Excellent work.
