Childrens' Books FREYA. Piers is currently co-writing and illustrating Freya, a novel for young adults set during the Second World War. The fast-paced story moves between the Yorkshire Dales, Whitby, London and Northern France and deals with love, loss, jealousy, betrayal and sacrifice in teenagers. Piers’ beautiful illustrations of his beloved Dales help to immerse the reader in both the period and the place. Freya is being co-authored by Ed Greig, who has thoroughly enjoyed returning to the Yorkshire he grew up in during the writing process. The book will be available in all good bookshops in Summer 2011. A few tentative illustrations are below. DANNY'S MOON DREAM "Always fighting, Danny's parents banish love and a nightmare world takes over. Danny's quest is to find love and bring it back into his family." Aimed at the top 8/10 to 15 year old, this is a fast-moving & singing, emotional, topical and often comical POP MUSICAL - again arrangements by the late, great Dave Bainbridge & by the renowned COLIN CATTLE ("Marlene"/"Beauty and the Beast" etc.) for full 2 hour stage production, DANNY'S DREAM, written by IVO MOSLEY. The sell-out Stage premiere, based on Ivo's script, was in April 1999 by STAGECOACH THEATRE (YORK): video available from Piers, but since then Piers deep froze this book and FREYA, another kid's book, in order to do easel work and SONNETS FOR A SIREN. 2011 sees the eventual finishing of both books. The theme of DANNY'S MOON DREAM is the craving for, discovery and re-introduction of LOVE into his dysfunctional family by a worried son, a boy of ten. It confronts the most serious theme of the next millennium that if humanity is to survive with any quality, love must exercise more power and care than the combined forces of clever machinery run by greedy Men-in Suits. In fact, DANNY after his dream vividly shows us our future choice for this millennium - a warm heaven or a cold hell on Earth. Its main theme, combining both the rebirth of love in a dome stuck on a ruined Earth followed by the renewal of natural life to our planet, could make it a winner. Like the WIZARD OF OZ, Danny's Dream has been written in all genre of script - from a 26 minute programme for TV/Radio to full 27 song "West End" stage production, SO DO watch this space. Given loving attention, the models were his children and friends, incl. Lorraine Chase and Mike Burns, the actors. Lindisfarne, Mike Harding and others contributedto the music. A publisher is welcome to make enquiries and ask to see NEAR-finished pages; indeed both books can be seen befor this Easter in a complete but unfinished state. And both would make great Musicals SINCE BOTH HAVE BEEN SET TO MUSIC with lindisfarne, Mike Harding, Lorraine Chase, mike burns, Hugh Quarshie etc helping.