A Keighley-born writer has self-published a book featuring four children's stories.

Mark Pennington's heroine in the £4.99 paperback is enterprising young girl Bolta Lighting.

In the stories she visits a boatmaker, a prison, a haunted mansion and a theme park.

Mark, a member of Leeds Writers' Circle, wrote the book at his present home in Horsforth.

He said: "Its local authorship and northern setting may lend it considerable appeal to readers."

Bolta Lightning Goes to Sea is available oline from Amazon or the Website boltalightning