Hello! My name is Peter Bunzl and I am the author of the Cogheart Adventures…

✹ I write quirky tales about finding your place in the world and what makes you unique. I love cinematic images, magic adventures and big odd ideas! There’s books, videos and bloggy stuff here so please take a look around… ♥︎

Covid Update…

TEACHERS, FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN CONTINUE TO READ COGHEART TO YOUR CLASS ONLINE DURING LOCKDOWN…

In recent weeks I’ve had many enquiries from teachers who were reading the Cogheart Adventures with their class and want to keep reading to their absent students online. Usborne have kindly given permission to do this until the end of the school year. Please follow their terms and conditions set out here to create your online readings.

Happy reading, Peter x

Latest News…

My 6 favourite animal sidekicks!

I love animal sidekicks. My children’s series ‘The Cogheart Adventures’ features an animal sidekick named Malkin. Malkin is a mechanical fox. Unlike a real fox he can talk, but, just like a real fox, if real foxes could talk, he has high-minded opinions about everything. Here are six of my favourite animal sidekicks from children’s literature… Who are you favourite animal sidekicks? Why not write a story with your own animal sidekick in? ...
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BOOK OF HOPES

PROUD to say that my little poem is a part of this anthology of HOPE: called THE BOOK OF HOPES. Put together by amazing children's author Katherine Rundell, it is filled with bite-sized stories poems and pictures of HUMOUR, JOY and HOPE. A digital copy of the book is FREE to read digitally ( from 27.04.20) on the literacy trust's website. Here-- Read Katherine's article on how the Book of Hopes came together and sample ...
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Build Malkin out of Lego

Lego fans in lockdown! This is the coolest. Someone on YouTube has done a video showing how to build Malkin the mechanimal fox out of Lego. Watch the clip below ...
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