Patricia Cleveland-Peck - author
Patricia Cleveland-Peck started writing at the age of ten. Her first works were plays in which she forced her friends to act. After living in France and Ireland for a while she eventually married and had three children. They all lived on a smallholding in rural Sussex with sheep, hens, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, doves, bees, 3 Irish wolfhounds and a big untidy garden.
When her two sons and daughter were little Patricia published fourteen children’s books including
The String Family,
Much Too Much,
The Bus From Beyond and
Shepherd Boy. When her children grew up she began to write adult books and plays and also visited many countries as a travel journalist. This she still does, but with a young granddaughter now she has returned to the magic world of children’s books with
You Can't Take An Elephant On The Bus.
Patricia and her husband still live on the smallholding surrounded by animals - but now Justin, one of the sons, does all the hard work.
Books
You Can't Take An Elephant On The Bus - with David Tazzyman, for Bloomsbury (2015)
