What Colour Is the Wind

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One Easter Sunday I was playing at a country music club and thought it was an appropriate day to play a gospel music song, and I got an amazing response. Sometimes you are too close to something to be able to appreciate the worth of it. People gave me the belief in those songs long before I had the belief in them myself."

What Color is the Wind? is an interactive sensory book for kids with beautiful illustrations and a simple, engaging story. While this thought-provoking story might go over the heads of some little ones, the offbeat questions, beautiful artwork, and unique multi-sensory approach will be simply enchanting for creative-minded children." — Booklist You're an artist who certainly hasn't had the success overnight, that's for sure. A lot of hard work has gone into you, and you've really had to work hard. What advice would you give a new budding writer? I would say to them be inspired by other people but strive to be your own person. Musically, it's great to take sort of influences from here, there, and everywhere; everybody's done it, me included; but then to strive to find something uniquely your own is all I'm used to; I used to admire, say, Dylan and the Beatles and all these wonderful writers, but then you think, Oh, I'm just Charlie . I'm not that, so I would say strive to be your own person. Musically, don't be put off by rejection because everybody's rejected me many times, but even people as great as Elvis Presley and the Beatles were rejected, so don't be disheartened by that, be yourself, don't lose her, and put a bit of faith in the man upstairs. Charlie Thank you so much for joining us. We wish you the very best for the year coming.With that, because I'd never been a child in real life, he said, No, dad, you're number two. I was number one the following week and all of Ireland went out and bought that song so I'm eternally grateful to the artist people because if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be here what's for the future Charlie well I never looked too far ahead you know you've just celebrated your birthday I have do you dare want to tell us well I'll tell you I'm 69 years of age and I still feel like 69 years you know you look good freshness Velma well, she's delighted because for years while I was playing in the pub, she was shattered in the house mind and the kids in the dog and everything, and as this success arrived late, all the kids had grown, so now we'd yet set round the world, you know, doing thinking an Englishman going into Ireland you know and I was there like a day and I realized how stupid that was and yeah i was just playing in little pubs and things but there was a lovely funny story which came out of it i played i went into the palace bar and Athlon which is run by a great friend of ours and their plane was Seamus Shannon a wonderful according accordion player and a great act himself and he says had two famous people have just walked in our own Tony Allen and the marvelous singer-songwriter from Liverpool he said Charlie land straight and of course nobody dared me and nobody knew me and I sat down and they were all saying Charlie who you know they'd all had Tony obviously and this bloke sat next to me we had a lovely conversation and a couple of pints and as he said to me charlie is that right he wrote the songs I said I wrote song he said what did you write and I said they're all part of me I will love you all my life and he said you sure I've never heard of them I said it doesn't matter because I'm not a small Children tend to see the world as very binary. I think this book is a good challenge for a child's way of thinking in that it gets to see that many things in life are complicated and have many nuances. Sometimes the sum of its parts is what defines something.

I was a grocery store manager railways flour mills you name it and lastly I was a teacher for 14 years but the dream was always a musical long really you ready teach you for 14 years I was is this in Birkenhead yeah in the same area where I lived and it was funny that must have been fun well if part of it was and part of it I mean I was so glad to leave people had this misconception that you were having a wonderful time and it must have been a real you know strain to pull away from it yeah I was so delighted when the Irish people rescued me it was it was so stressful but at the same time it had wonderful aspects to it and I used to get requests in the playground they said me mom said will you play crazy for a tonight in the pub so everybody knew what it would wear me how it really lay but I haven't said that I met wonderful kids and wonderful staff who were still friends now that's brilliant are you still in you're still based in Birkenhead value I am yet although even Peter Lindbergh and a A blind child asks what color the wind is. He gets different answers from those he asks. The wolf says the wind is “the dark smell of the forest.” The bees say the wind is “the color of sunshine.” The rain says nothing! But the bees say “the color of sunshine.” At the end the child reaches a giant who says that the wind is the color of all of these things.

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A young lad called Paddy sang it in front of the whole school. He had that strength in character which meant kids respected him, rather than sniggered at him. He did a great job, but then I buried the song for a long time. I think this little book is a bit of a wonder. Deeply appealing to children of all ages, to say nothing of the adults out there, with so many uses, and so many applications. It reminds me of the old picture books by Bruno Munari that weren’t afraid to try new things with the picture book format." —Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal