David Hale is a Sales and Marketing specialist who has spent most of his working career in the field of suspension seats for Tractors and Diggers.

Born in India in 1956, he spent some of his early years in Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales.

Some of this story is based on ‘mental images’ from those days and family holidays in the Gower Peninsula.

The character of Dai was made up by David when his daughter Jenny was a small girl, as a bedtime story.

She struggled to go off to sleep without a story but got fed up with regular books.
So David invented Dai and just made stories up on the spot. These were told in a Welsh accent!

However, as the stories were told they both started to giggle and the accent changed to Irish, to Scottish, to Indian, in fact anything but Welsh!

Dai and the missing Baby Crocodile is the first of these stories. 

Since 1980 the family have lived in Northamptonshire.

Jenny is David’s daughter and the reason behind David’s creations. 

When Jenny was a child, she would struggle to fall asleep to every day ‘normal stories’ so David made up these wonderful tales about ‘Dai’ and the stories have expanded since. 

Jenny now has her family of her own, and her daughter Evie and dog Monty are starring throughout the books. 

Evie is 6 and loves to read the books to her Grandad. 

Jenny is the organiser behind the scenes, who plans and organises events to promote the books.

Evie also loves to help at events and gives children stickers and helps them colour pictures of the colouring in book. 

You will always see Jenny with David at events, what a great team we make!