About me
(Alan Gibbons at the Blandford School, Dorset)
Alan Gibbons has been writing children’s books for 20 years. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2000 ‘The book I couldn’t put down’ for his best-selling book Shadow of the Minotaur. He was a judge of the 2001 Awards.
He has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2001 and 2003 and
has won the Leicester Book of the Year Award, the Angus Book Award, the Catalyst Book Award, the Salford Librarians Special Award, the Birmingham Chills Award and the Stockport Book Award.. His books have been published in Japanese, German, Italian, French, Thai, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and other languages.
(The Dutch edition of one of my football books).
Alan taught for eighteen years, working with KS1, KS2 and KS3. He has made numerous visits to schools and libraries, colleges and education conferences. He is a popular speaker at the Edinburgh Festival, the London Book Fair, the Northern Children’s Book Festival, the Hay-on-Wye Festival, the Cheltenham Festival and many others.
| Pupils’ achievement is very good. This is due to the effective deployment of the talented Author in Residence, and the focused teaching of skills in dedicated writing lessons. |
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Ofsted Report on one of Alan’s schools |
Alan has also appeared on the BBC Education programme Writer’s Block, the Blue Peter Book Awards, Radio 4’s Front Row, The Jeremy Vine Show, Simon Mayo’s programme, The World Tonight, BBC 24, Channel Four News and The Message programme. He is a regular contributor to TES, Junior Education, Carousel, Books for Keeps and other journals. Alan writes an occasional column for the Liverpool Echo. One of his stories was serialised in English Street, a supplement of the Hong Kong Economic Times.
Alan is a full time writer and independent educational consultant. He has
featured in the Book Trust’s Writing Together Initiative. In addition to
visiting 150 schools a year across the UK, Alan has spoken in the Channel
Islands, Spain, France, Cyprus, Switzerland, China, Norway, Ireland North and South and Holland. Visits to Spain (a second time) and Singapore are in the process of negotiation.
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Or watch him on You Tube:
(Me with a super lambanana at Blueberry Park school in Liverpool)
This is Renegade, Book Three of Hell’s Underground. Book Four of five, Witch Breed, is published in July, 2010.
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