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Luke Mathius Harlow was born in Great Grimsby, originally a large fishing port. He has been writing short stories since he was very young. He loves stories with unexpected twists which keeps the reader turning pages. As a writer, he particularly likes tales that have only one purpose... to make you smile.
Luke has written both fiction and non-fiction books in the past, but is now focusing on writing for young children.
His début picture book story for children is based on a character called Mister Bubble. Mister Bubble is a series of fun books for children between the ages of 4 – 8 years old.
"Because you squeezed my bottle and set me free, I will grant you three wishes," Mister Bubble told the children.
"Any three wishes you want. But beware; if the wishes are not kind and good, the wish you make is likely to go wrong!"
The Mister Bubble series aims at being both entertaining and instructional to young minds.
Luke has a Bachelor of Science honours degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Lincoln, England, UK.
Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
What does it mean to be thoughtless? Do children understand the concept? So many children are loved too much to the point that they are spoiled. These children are not expected to help out around the house, or to do any chores. Everything is done for them and they take everything for granted. These are thoughtless children and thoughtless children grow up to become thoughtless teenagers and then thoughtless adults.
In The Adventures of Mister Bubble, Mr. Bubble has the magical ability to right some of these wrongs and he goes about this task with something so simple as allowing the children to make three wishes. When a very kind mother becomes worried because her children are hiding in the woods after dark to torment her, Mr. Bubble appears and grants the children three wishes. The children think this is great and quickly use up the first two wishes, demanding for something different about their mother. What they learn from this experience changes them from thoughtless children into thoughtful and caring children.
Doing chores and helping out at home are part of the learning process during the growing-up years. It also instills important values into a child's mind and heart, the values of thoughtfulness and caring. In this day and age when everything is handed out to children and children are catered to hand and foot, this is a difficult lesson to teach. Author Luke Mathius Harlow has done an excellent job of getting this message across with his very clever story about two thoughtless children and their very loving mother. This is a delightful and colorfully illustrated story to teach children how to be thoughtful and caring, not just to their parents, but to everyone. Very well done.
