The Time TunnelA Middle-grade story
2 Children accidentally travel trough time
The dangers of being too impulsive
Children Tim and Ruth are on a picnic in the Park with their parents.
When Ruth impatiently leads them on a short-cut out of a dark tunnel, they come out 100 years into the past.
With a new friend, they explore the Park as it was then.
Can he help them find their way back home? Will he travel with them?
31 Pages Long
Barbara Randell
Barbara was born in a small Australian town in 1942, then educated for 9 years in a one-roomed school with all grades taught by a single teacher. She left home at 14, to spend 4 years in a girls’ boarding school, followed by 8 years at Universities, where she became an environmental scientist. After marrying and raising 2 daughters, she taught in high schools, universities and adult education for 20 years. She is now widowed and has a teenage grandson.
Barbara has been writing stories ever since childhood, her earliest reading loves were Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and Ngaio Marsh. She writes stories set in small country towns, or their surroundings. The first published, in 2018, was a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; then in 2021, a memoir of her childhood on a farm in the Queensland Bush; later she moved to retellings of other Austen stories, and a cosy mystery-romance novella, all set in Australia. She has also published a book of Short Stories ...cosy mysteries set in scattered sites across Australia, all of which she has visited, and knows well.