Vintage dads are more common than you think and this book will help to fix them good and proper. You can learn how to cool down an overheated dad (and earn some extra pocket money), spot whether your dad's ready for the scrap heap, and get him to throw away those old cardies.
Roy Apps is the author of 58 children's books. The two latest books in his new Dream to Win series are to be published in October 2009.
Roy has also written 60-odd TV scripts and 60 not-so-odd ones. He is one of only four writers to have received a personal BAFTA Children's Film & Television Writers' Award. Most recently, he has writing for the new animation series, Casper's Scare School.
He visits schools, libraries, bookshops and Arts Festivals all over the country.
He leads writing projects for all ages and has helped young writers create books, plays, films, poetry, podcasts, musical theatre and opera.
Currently he is part of a member of the Basildon Adopt-an-Author Project whose Patron is England and West Ham United goalkeeper, Robert Green