The Little Yellow Digger

The Little Yellow Digger

‘The Little Yellow Digger That Saved’ is a series of books that are being created to help vulnerable children, there will be 8 books in the series and include a different digger supporting The Little Yellow Digger when saving the day.

The books are in association with JCB and contains eight different yellow diggers throughout the series that resemble JCB machines.

All profits will be donated to children’s charities to support vulnerable children.

Author – Matthew Wroe and Family

I live in the countryside surrounded by farmers’ fields in Staffordshire with my wife Kelly and our two cheeky boys. We are very lucky to have a garden teeming with wildlife and fields around us to explore. I love my boys dearly and they are one of the reasons why I started writing, I never really had a father figure in my life and why I want to be everything to my boys that I longed for as a child.

When I was growing up I really struggled in school and found it hard to fit in, at 25 I found out I was dyslexic and reflecting on my time in education I was able to understand why I struggled in school. It was not that I was unintelligent, it was the format which I was being taught that did not suit my brain, and once I understood this I went back into education to become a chartered accountant and since then I have gained my fellowship in accounting and an MBA.

Before writing this book I raised money for charity through endurance events, while I am lucky in life, others are not so lucky and this is why I want to help vulnerable children.

• I have cycled from Alton Towers Resort to the Eiffel Tower and back (859 miles) to raise money for Merlin’s Magic Wand Children’s Charity.
• I completed in the UK Ironman, (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26 mile run) and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, to raise money for Scope who I volunteered for as a teenager.
• I completed an ultramarathon, (100km) and raised money for the Alzheimer’s society due to my mother being diagnosed at the time.

My boys are my biggest focus and by writing a book I could involve my boys and hopefully help vulnerable children in the process. I am a full time accountant, who works for JCB and very lucky to occasionally drive diggers which helped inspire my story. I have a keen love of music and music has been an influencing factor in my writing style as my books are written in rhyming verse.

When I was growing up, going on adventures, imagining I was in magical places is what started my love travelling and I am lucky enough to have been all over the world. My favourite places are Brazil, (Rio and Iguassu Falls), Australia, (diving the Great Barrier Reef and skydiving over the rainforest in Cairns), backpacking Thailand, Egypt, (Pyramids and tombs, I love their history), Iceland seeing the northern lights and backpacking across Europe seeing so many beautiful places. Travelling really opens my mind and I spend more of my money on experiences than acquiring possessions, as possessions become obsolete, break and never really last while experiences are with you forever.

Adventures outstanding on my bucket list are;
To dive with manta rays and whales, hike Machu Picchu, visit the amazon rainforest, climb Mount Everest, row the English Channel and cycle across America.

Illustrator – Crystal Rose Stott