Welcome

My warmest thanks to everybody whose visit and nice words - which I keep with pleasure - have encouraged me to go ahead with this site.

Creating my websites was a fascinating challenge that led me to get to know other people who share the same passions with me or simply recognize the significance of my work. I write these pages for my readers, so please enjoy reading them and visit me often. Without my readers, there would be no sense writing this website.

Every season of the year offers us an abundance of lovely flowers. The monthly legend is about one of those flowers that either health care for us, season our favourite dishes or humbly give us their perfume or bring beauty to our lives.

I love children and young people and I'm particularly worried about their access to reading and education in general. This is the main reason why I created the children's site Barry4kids.net with stories and games and activities for learning in an amusing way. Most of those features were inspired by the stories of my first book for children, the French and Portuguese versions of Barry's Adventure. Through my stories and theatre plays I try to express my great affection for children as well as to pass on to them true values like respect and love for animals, those living creatures who share with us this Earth where everybody and everything should live in Peace and Harmony with Nature.

Barry4kids.net is above all a children’s website, but parents and grand-parents and also teachers are warmly invited to visit it and let children use it. The “word of mouth” is the best marketing. Inspired by my stories, a few school children in France showed a remarkable talent for poetry. Please read those charming kids' poems and persuade English-speaking children wishing to express themselves also through poems to send them to me. Their poems will be shown here and in Barry4kids.net.

There are different kinds of things in life: Those that are good to know, those that are part of Man's History or those that make us laugh. I welcome you with a little humour:

Husbands and wifes

He asks his wife: "Why are married women heavier than single women?".

She says to him: "Single women come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed. Married women come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge..."

I wish I make you laugh or at least make you smile... See you soon and whatever your choice, do not hesitate to send me a message either with your comments and/or suggestions or to my Guestbook.

And no matter how old you are, do not kill the child's sould that sleeps in you, because, as the great Portuguese poet António Gedeão* would sing:

Dream our Life drives. And whenever a Man dreams, The World moves on and thrives, Like a colourful ball, In the hands of a child. (in Pedra Filosofal, 1970)

* pseudonymous of Rómulo de Carvalho