Author Mike Marsh has donated 68 signed copies of his books to children in need.

He was so impressed after reading about a fundraising drive to benefit foster children that he felt compelled to do something.

“Christmas is a special time for children,” he told The Royal Gazette. “I had to do something.”

The drive was started at Rosa’s Cantina and Chopsticks Fusion to benefit children in foster care and with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda.

Mr Marsh contacted Lindsay Durham, the director of operations and human resources of both restaurants and president of the Bermuda Foster Parent Association, to see how he could help. “I asked her how many books she would need for the younger children. She said she needed presents for 44 young children, and many more for older children.”

At an event at the Bookmart on Saturday, Mr Marsh donated 43 copies of his Purple Grumblies’ 15th Adventure Christmas in Bermuda, and one full set of all 15 books.

For older children, he donated ten copies of his non-fiction historical book Bermuda’s Great Gunpowder Plot 1775.