Alan Gibbons

Alan Gibbons is a Blue Peter Book Award winner and children's author, who currently lives in the North of England.

Gibbons was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to the city where Alan experienced bullying for the first time. He began to write as a child but never tried to get any of his work published.cite web |title=the Alan Gibbons Interview |url=http://www.alangibbons.com/interview.htm |accessdate=August 15 |accessyear=2007]

Gibbons trained to be a teacher in his mid-thirties and starting writing short stories for his students. Later, he began to write professionally. In 2000, he won the Blue Peter Book Award in the "The Book I Couldn't Put Down" category for "Shadow of the Minotaur". He was a judge for the 2001 Blue Peter Book Awards. He was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2001 and 2003 and shortlisted twice for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He has also won the Leicester Book of the Year, the Stockport Book Award, the Angus Book Award, the Catalyst Award, and the Salford Librarians' Special Award.citeweb |title=Official site |url=http://www.alangibbons.com/ |accessdate=August 15 |accessyear=2007]

In addition to being a full-time writer, he is an educational consultant and speaks at schools across the UK and abroadHe has been a regular speaker at the Edinburgh and London Book Festivals, the Northern Childrens Book Festival, Hay on Wye and Children's Books Ireland.His work is published in nineteen languages and he visits many schools internationally.

He has appeared on BBCTV, Channel 4, Radio 4, Radio 5 live and has written in the Times Educational Supplement, Junior Education, Carousel, Books For Keeps and other publications.

He organised the Authors Against the SATs Campaign.

He is organiser of the Campaign for the Book.

Bibliography

*"Whose Side Are You On?" (1988)
*"Pig" (1990)
*"Our Peculiar Neighbour" (1990)
*"The Jaws of the Dragon" (1991)
*"S. O. S. Save Our Santa" (1992)
*"A Dagger in the Sky" (1992)
*"Chicken" (1993)
*"Not Yeti" (1994)
*"Grandad's Ears" (1994)
*"Hattie Hates Hats" (1994)
*"City of Fire" (1995)
*"Ganging Up" (1995)
*"The Climbing Boys" (1995)
*"A Street of Tall People" (1995)
*"When My Ship Came in" (1995)
*"Playing with Fire" (1996)
*"Total Football: Some You Win..." (1997)
*"Total Football: Under Pressure" (1997)
*"Total Football: Divided We Fall" (1998)
*"Total Football: Injury Time" (1998)
*"Power Play" (1998)
*"Last Man Standing" (1998)
*"Twin Strikers" (1999)
*"Final Countdown" (1999)
*"A Fight to Belong" (1999)
*"The Guv'nor" (1999)
*"The Legendeer: Shadow of the Minotaur" (2000)
*"The Legendeer: Vampyr Legion" (2000)
*"The Legendeer: Warriors of the Raven" (2001)
*"Julie and Me and Michael Owen Make Three" (2001)
*"Treble Trouble" (2002)
*"The Cold Heart of Summer" (2002)
*"The Edge" (2002)
*"Deathriders" (2003)
*"Caught in the Crossfire" (2003)
*"The Dark Beneath" (2003)
*"The Defender" (2004)
*"The Lost Boys' Appreciation Society" (2004)
*"The Night Hunger" (2004)
*"Blood Pressure" (2005)
*"Hold On" (2005)
*"The Greatest" (2006)
*"Setting of a Cruel Sun" (2006)
*"Rise of the Blood Moon" (2006)
*"Scared to Death" (July 2007)
*"The Darkwing Omnibus" (October 2007)
*"The Legendeer Trilogy" (February 2008)
* "The Demon Assassin" (2008)
* "The Number Seven Shirt" (2008)
* "Teach Me to Write Poetry"
* "Teach Me to Write Non Fiction"
* 'Teach Me to Write Fiction"

References

External links

* [http://www.alangibbons.com Official website]
* [http://www.alangibbons.net Official blog]