The Stickumfast Tree

by John Worsley Simpson, Ellen van Boggelen-Heutink (Illustrator)

Cursed by a wicked witch when her purse full of jewels got trapped in its branches, The Stickum-Fast Tree is covered with the strongest glue the world has ever known. Two poor kids are challenged with finding a way to free the purse and its fortune in jewels. To do that, the wicked witch and the horrible grisselslugs and the tree's sticky stuff have to be overcome.

40 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 19, 2015

About the author

John Worsley Simpson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, emigrated to Canada as a young child and grew up in Toronto. He attended elementary and secondary schools in East York and Scarborough, and McMaster University in Hamilton, and is currently taking courses at Laurentian University. He was a journalist for many years, most recently as an editor with a major international news service. He is married and has two grown sons. He and his wife, Colleen, live in Barrie, Ontario. Simpson is the author of a mystery series published by Mercury Press: Undercut, Counterpoint, Shadowmen and Debt of Death. The first three have been re-edited and published as e-books by MuseItUp Publishing as Stark, a Harry Stark Mystery; Stark Choice and Stark Shadows. His latest book, Death Never Says Goodbye, has been described as a "A rollercoaster ride of mystery and murder." It's available in a print edition from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2L4ZZMB and as a Kindle e-book from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3mW1Xfl and an e-book from Kobo: http://bit.ly/16oLjKR