This is the first in a series of exciting new children’s adventure novels by author Steve Keeping. The main character ‘Chubbly’ a short slightly overweight thirteen year old intellectual schoolboy. His face was rounded, covered with youthful freckles, and he had the brightest of blue eyes; always curious and seeking out the next adrenaline-surge. His complexion was fair and his red hair almost exactly matched the colour of his favourite flying suit. A boy absolutely in love and obsessed with aeroplanes. The story starts with Chubbly having an almost real and absolutely fantastic dream as a result of eating too much of his grandad’s homemade goats cheese!        

An amazing secret shared only by Chubbly and his very best friend granddad Curly, a retired ex Royal Air Force pilot. Over the following months Chubbly and granddad Curly design, plan and construct ‘The Flyer’ inside Chubbly’s dad’s garden shed, using all sorts of old bits and bobs to build the individual little bi-plane, powered by an old salvaged Honda motorcycle engine and driven by an old wooden propeller wall clock, which before had taken pride above granddad Curly’s fireplace. Chubbly will go on to pilot ‘The Flyer’ to many different places around the World, new adventures, discovering new countries and cultures, whilst uncovering all kinds of exciting hidden secrets.
      His very first adventure takes Chubbly to Oban in the Highlands of Scotland where he meets two new friends Mac and Aggie McDougal, after spending the night with them in their log cabin close to the airport they guide Chubbly in the direction of Loch Ness to uncover an old buried map, drawn and then hidden by Mac and his friends over 50 years ago, showing Chubbly the exact spot needed to catch a glimpse of the legendary Loch Ness monster.  Will he or will he not discover the monster?
Upon his return home, close to London’s Heathrow Airport, he explains the whole exciting story to his granddad Curly before they plan his next exciting adventure flight to France, leading on to the second book in the series of ‘The great world adventures of Chubbly the aviator’