Yvonne Fleming

Hi, my name is Yvonne Fleming and I am a wife, mother, childminder, and children’s author. I think I have the best job in the world as I look forward to getting up every morning. Anyone who works with children will know how much fun it is, and you always get a smile.

I created The Weatherbies from a passion of doodling on paper. Whilst sitting in the garden colouring with the children on a sunny day, I looked up at the sky and doodled sketches of the weather onto paper. I wanted to make the weather fun and interesting for the children I cared for, so I did rough sketches of a few little weather characters and gave them names. I started making up little stories and called them The Weatherbies.

All of a sudden I had a collection of Weatherbies characters and Sammy Sun, Ronny Rain, Flo Snow, Colin Cloud, Rosie Rainbow, Willy Wind, Barry Star, Harry Hail, Mary Moon, Tommy Thunder and The Lightning Twins were born.