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Welcome
to my site
I
began writing children's books when I was at art college, so that's
over thirty years as a children's author. Must be nearly time to grow
up. About eighty titles published to date, I think. These
include story books and pop-ups for younger readers, as well as
my more recent novels for older children. I'm also an illustrator
and paper-engineer, and you can see examples of this type of work
around the site.
Sometimes I provide the paper engineering for pop-up books by
other artists and children's authors - Jan Pienkowski, for example,
Emma Chichester-Clark and Damien Hirst. I visit schools giving
workshops in paper engineering, and also run writing workshops
for adults. Click on 'Join My Writing Workshop' for more details
of these. Schools are welcome to email me for a brochure, outlining
the services on offer.
I'm part way through a trilogy of children's novels, currently
working on the third book. The first two titles, The Various and
Celandine, are available on Amazon and in most of the major chain
bookstores. The Various was an award winner in The Nestle Smarties
Book Prize 2003. Celandine was published on the Fifth of November
2005.
Finally I'm a semi-pro musician, playing mostly jazz. I provided
the music and artwork for two BBC children's television series
of Bump the elephant. Mind you, that was ages ago, and so it's
high time somebody sampled it for a dance track and made me a
fortune.
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