★Told and illustrated by John Patience, the British famous children's writer and illustrator with more than 40 years of publishing experience! With profound painting skills and literary attainments, he has published more than 150 children's books. His books have been translated into many languages and published in many countries such as China, USA, UK, Russia and so on!
★ Far out in space, 1.2 billion light years to be exact, a strange planet which is called Dumpling is circled around a huge, flaming sun. Its surface is covered with craters, volcanoes, weird fungus forests and caves. These caves are home to the dumpies with all kinds of skin colors: blue, red, yellow, green, pink, purple and orange! That's where the story begins!

4 titles in this series:
Happy Birthday Blue
Lost in Space
The Edge of the World
The Monster on Misty Mountain

Orange the dumpy loves to invent. It invented jet-propelled pogo sticks and sunglasses with automatic windshield wipers (so you can wear them in the rain!) and its proudest boast, of course, is its exquisitely designed telescopic glasses. One day, while Orange was enjoying his favorite marmalade, an annoying mosquito flew around and got into the sweet jar of marmalade. When the mosquito finally disappeared, orange suddenly saw a huge monster through his telescope. What's going on here?

About John Patience - author and illustrator of children's books

I studied at the Harris College in Preston, Lancashire where I trained as a book designer and typographer.
I began my career working as a book designer for a number of publishers in London, but my real interest was always children’s literature. My dream to write and illustrate stories for children came to fruition at the age of 30 when my first book was published. Since then I have written and/or illustrated over 100 original stories, pop-up books and retellings of classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, for publishers in the UK, USA and Australia. My books have been published around the world and translated into many languages. I am perhaps best known for my Tales from Fern Hollow series which continues to have a strong following and about which I continue to receive fan mail.
Aside from illustration, I also enjoy producing digital sculptures using the excellent ZBrush digital sculpting tool by Pixologic. Some of my digital sculpts have been brought to physical reality via the magic of 3D printing!
I have a large catalogue of children's books (both stories and illustrations) available for licensing. Individual pieces of artwork are also available for licensing for merchandise etc.. Please contact me as shown below if you are interested in acquiring a licence to publish my work or to use it for other products.