Dan, The Lollipop Man

Name: Dan, The Lollipop Man
Author: Graham Dix

Meet Dan, the Lollipop Man. He gets up at 6.00 o’clock every morning! What does he do that means he must wake up so early? Very important work, of course. School children and their Mums and Dads depend on him. They even put their lives in his hands! Every day, in all weathers, Dan helps the children to cross the busy road safely, on their way to school. He never lets them down. Dan is always cheerful. He never complains. Dan talks to everyone. He swings round lampposts. Even the littlest humans who have just learned to walk, smile, and say, “Good Morning, Lollipop Man!” to Dan. He loves everyone and everyone loves him, especially children. And Dogs, lots of dogs. Meet his friends, the twins, Old Mrs Clover, a cat on a lead! Meet Marvellous Mums and Dynamic Dads with their pushchairs, as Dan guides them through the traffic. Join Dan the Lollipop Man on his daily quest to get Mona and Charlie, and all the other children he loves, safely to school each day.

Graham Dix

Graham Dix is in his sixties, which probably seems very old to you children, but here’s the thing, he may have got older, but Graham has never grown up. He is still a child inside. He loves children’s books just as much now as when he was four, listening to his mother read Winnie the Pooh to him at bedtime. For a while, Graham read stories to children, in local libraries. One day he thought ‘I love them so much, why don’t I write one?’ And here it is, for all you children out there, grown-up ones included.