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Alan Gibbons

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www.alangibbons.net (blog)

Alan Gibbons is an award winning writer for children and young adults. Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down' with Shadow of the Minotaur, Alan has won seven other awards. He has also been shortlisted twice each for the Carnegie Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, Alan studied French and European Literature at the University of Warwick but he thinks he has learned most of what he knows in the university of life. After graduation, Alan spent the usual decade or more restlessly working his way through a myriad of unsatisfying jobs before teaching for almost two decades on Merseyside.

Alan is now a full time writer and educational consultant. He visits 150 schools a year in the UK and abroad and is looking forward to a three week tour of Africa next year.

Alan's latest projects the six book Hell's Underground series for Orion and a Barrington Stoke book The Dying Photo. This is the end product of a children's blurb competition in Liverpool. The winning entrant is having his blurb turned into a published novel.

Alan campaigns on literacy issues. He is the organiser of the Campaign for the Book and Authors Against the SATs.

He lives in Liverpool with his wife and four children.

Children's Books (Author)

  • Hate
    Reviewed in BfK No. 206 (May 2014)
    2
  • Street of Tall People
    Reviewed in BfK No. 192 (January 2012)
    3
  • An Act of Love
    Reviewed in BfK No. 190 (September 2011)
    3
  • Witch Breed
    Reviewed in BfK No. 185 (November 2010)
    3
  • Renegade
    Reviewed in BfK No. 179 (November 2009)
    4
  • Charles Darwin
    Reviewed in BfK No. 174 (January 2009)
    5
  • The Demon Assassin
    Reviewed in BfK No. 173 (November 2008)
    3
  • Setting of a Cruel Sun
    Reviewed in BfK No. 165 (July 2007)
    3
  • Rise of The Blood Moon
    Reviewed in BfK No. 160 (September 2006)
    3
  • Blood Pressure
    Reviewed in BfK No. 152 (May 2005)
    4
  • The Edge
    Reviewed in BfK No. 148 (September 2004)
    4
  • The Defender
    Reviewed in BfK No. 146 (May 2004)
    4
  • The Lost Boys' Appreciation Society
    Reviewed in BfK No. 146 (May 2004)
    4
  • The Edge
    Reviewed in BfK No. 135 (July 2002)
    5
  • Julie and Me... and Michael Owen Makes Three
    Reviewed in BfK No. 133 (March 2002)
    3
  • Vampyr Legion
    Reviewed in BfK No. 128 (May 2001)
    3
  • Shadow of the Minotaur
    Reviewed in BfK No. 122 (May 2000)
    4
  • Ganging Up
    Reviewed in BfK No. 100 (September 1996)
    0
  • Street of Tall People
    Reviewed in BfK No. 100 (September 1996)
    0
  • Not Yeti
    Reviewed in BfK No. 94 (September 1995)
    0

Articles

Gun Control BfK No. 199 (March 2013)

Alan Gibbons on writing about street violence for teens

Children’s and Young Adult Fiction and the ‘war on terror’ BfK No. 189 (July 2011)

Children’s and Young Adult Fiction and the ‘war on terror’. Alan Gibbons on how children’s writers have responded.

What's reading for anyway? BfK No. 144 (January 2004)

Alan Gibbons on the impact of SATs.

History

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