Truelight Books

09/01/2022

TODAY, the famous HARROW FAIR begins. I can imagine people streaming in , children running to the tractors first, then to the rides; looking for the animals in the barn or watching the horses outside. The Fair has lots to see and do for everyone.That's why I wrote the book so you can remember and enjoy the book over and over. It will be on sale on FRIDAY at 163 Wellington- just up the road from the Fair. Save a $1 and get it for $12 today just straight up wellington and look for her table near Erie Road.

09/01/2022

09/01/2022

Today, the wonderful HARROW FAIR has begun; it is back after the 2years of the Pandemic. People are streaming into it now to see the animals, the exhibits and the tractors. Soon they can go into the halls and see what crafts , pies and cookies and wonderful flowers are on display. Children will have rides and all the fun of the Fair. The 3rd edition of the book is now available.Why not get your copy?Jane is selling them outside the Fairgrounds at 163 wellington on Friday afternoon. Come and see how it will remind you of all you do at the Fair this year.It's fun reading and remembering! Below is a picture of it and a video to see first.

06/20/2021

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I am trying to help people in Uganda and Pakistan. Once you use it here, you will discover how reasonable it is and how quick you can help another person.

You're invited

01/03/2021

As it is a new year, I thought I'd tell you a bit about my past life.I grew up in Wales during WWII but when I was almost 9 we went back to Kent where my mother had a clothing and shoe shop. We lived in a small village near Canterbury and I eventually went to the grammar school there for 6years. while I was there, I came to love the fine cathedral and often walked past it on the way to music lessons weekly.
Canterbury dates back to Roman times and there is the oldest church in England called St Martins which dates from Anglo-Saxon times; from there, the cathedral was planned by St Augustine. I was fortunate enough to write about Canterbury in the 15th Century, working in the cathedral library in the winter of 1958 break and in March1959 again.
After getting my degreein July '59 at the University of Southampton, I married a scientist who had a job in Kuala Lumpur to do research on rubber trees. Within weeks of arrival, I taught part-time and then got a job in a mission high school for girls, run by the nuns. I spent happy years there teaching history and English to girls doing exams sent from UK. we left Malaysia in 1964.
We had the experience of travelling overland to England , using a Ford Dormobile. We picked up the car in Calcutta,drove through India, went up to Kashmir and eventually went to Lahore Pakistan and onto Iran, Iraq and Jerusalem.This too us about 6 weeks and we left Jerusalem( after seeing Bethlehem) to go north through Damascus to Turkey. we spent a few days in Istanbul and went on to Riejka in Yugoslavia then through Switzerland to Germany and the UK. It was the journey of a lifetime because it would be hard to pass through the Middle Eeast these days.
Nine months later,my husband had a new post as a research scientist in Harrow and we have stayed here every since,bringing up two girls and later, two boys.I have taught in essex County for 23 years and, retiring a little early, I have been writing for children mainly about what Essex county has offered me and of course you, in places to visit and ideas that come from them. My first book was about the wonderful Harrow Fair that we all love to go to in late August near Labour day. This past year was a first for this fair that had gone for 165 years without a break. I hope we can have it in 2021. Since then I have written 18 books and I hope you will get to know more about them.
I rarely tell this story above but hope you can see why I love to write about places I have seen or know well. One place is jack Miner's Bird Sanctuary where Jack started to protect birds over 116 years ago.I asked his son about permission to write a story about an immigrant girl visitng the Sanctuary and he agreed. Since then I have the novel about Mei Ling and another picture book about the geese.Take a look below. They are also available in the Essex County Library;they maybe even in your shool library too!

12/16/2020

We attended church on Sunday last and I am thinking of fhe Christmas service we will not have together. But we have the joy of believing that God who created us, chose to come down and reveal himself as the baby Jesus. He was and is the word, John speaks about in his Gospel Chapter 1He was there in the beginning and He is still there for us in His Word, the Bible.
A singular word can change the world. The Word of God created us, and it comes to us in flesh through Jesus; it has been given to you and me. If we do not listen carefully, we can miss it being spoken to us. If we do not embody and share it ourselves, we miss the opportunity to be transformed and to bring transformation. This world yearns for a word. This world yearns for His messenger. Accept the call this day, to receive that Word, to embody it, and, most importantly, to share it. Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us and Mary gave birth to Jesus, our Saviour.
Listen to a song about her and Jesus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uki0dkthzI
This is why I write a book like Surprise, Surprise. God is a surprise.

11/23/2020

I had two little girls many years ago and out of sharing Christmas with them came making cookies together and telling stories. During worl war II Iwas separated from my parents but I went to a local church and loved Christmas time. I liked the idea of helping others and my mother said people had to do that alot when they lived in the 1930's and I saw the same need in war. One day after Christmas I felt I had the idea for a story linking the past to our present.I thought of the Jewish Hanakah (shown below) and of sepherds who heard the angels. But i also showed how jessie was kind to all she met.The clues are on the book cover!A Cookie for the Christ Child came to me that quickly. I also loved Christina Rossetti's poetry and chose 'Love comes down at Christma's to write music for it.
The story is told about a young 7year old and the recipe for thumbprint cookies and my music went into the book. It's on sale today.Call me at 519-999-4616 or leave a message on Facebook today

11/22/2020

I love to write stories for children. Years ago when I was teaching, I saw the need for informative local books which through a story, can entertain children as well. l wrote about places I visited with my own children such as jack Miner's Point Pelee and local Fairs. Since then I've written 8 picture books, an early chapter novel for Christmas and one about Merlin and the red dragon, two middle grade stories and two histoical novels for YA or adults. I want to show you some of these titles and there are more on my website https://janebutterybooks.com but today i will put more books up here, Below are pictures from our latest book.

11/16/2020

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