BILLERICAY based author Sibel Beadle has just released the third of her children's adventure stories in the Witchy Travel Tale series.

The story - aimed at five year olds and upwards - is set around Miranda and her seven daughters. Her fifth daughter, Kai, desperately wants a pet.

Wherever she goes, Kai collects stray animals from bugs to snakes. However, none of these satisfy her dreams of having an animal she can really look after and call her own.

Thankfully, a solution unexpectedly appears when their friend Richard reveals that his grandson —a golden rabbit who lives in the Lake District— has the gift of making children’s wishes come true. And so, armed with some spells and a lot of camping equipment, Miranda, along with her daughters Kai and Viva, embark on an adventure.

The only question is will they manage to find the giant waterfall where Richard’s cheeky grandson lives and return with a cuddly pet for Kai?

Sibel - a mum of two daughters - left her career as a senior banker in the city to turn her hand to her true passion, writing children's stories.

She had always enjoyed creating impromptu stories at bedtime for her daughters. However it wasn’t until she was going through her own divorce, and her daughters went away with their father on holiday for the first time without her, that she was prompted to write these ideas down —but not in the traditional sense.

Instead of pen and paper, and in order to keep in contact, she bought her eldest a mobile phone and every night she would type and send them a few paragraphs of an imaginary story.

Thanks to their enthusiasm and love of her stories, Sibel realised that she wanted to expand on her creations and develop young female characters that other children like her daughters could identity, instead of the unrealistic dream of the fairy princess.

The result? Seven very different daughters each showing not only distinctive personalities and appearances but also very real problems that young children face today —from awkwardness and shyness to bullying and lack of self-esteem.

Going one step further Sibel’s books also acknowledge the highs and lows of modern day parenting facing up to the realities of of divorce, single parenting and bereavement in an age appropriate manner, and all with a little touch of magic.

And finally throughout the series Sibel reconnects the characters and their adventures with the joys of nature hoping that her stories will entice young children to visit the places where Miranda and her daughters have explored.

Previous titles in the Witchy Travel Tales series include; The Seven Sisters and Sleepless in Stonehenge (Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd 2017).

The third, The Golden Bunny of the Lake District is published by Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd.

All three books are available to purchase in paperback RRP £6.99 from online retailers including amazon.co.uk .

For more information visit witchytraveltales.com