Alan Gibbons
Profile
www.alangibbons.com (website)
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)
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Hate
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Street of Tall People
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An Act of Love
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Witch Breed
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Renegade
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Charles Darwin
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The Demon Assassin
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Setting of a Cruel Sun
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Rise of The Blood Moon
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Blood Pressure
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The Edge
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The Defender
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The Lost Boys' Appreciation Society
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The Edge
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Julie and Me... and Michael Owen Makes Three
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Vampyr Legion
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Shadow of the Minotaur
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Ganging Up
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Street of Tall People
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Not Yeti
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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- 11 years 31 weeks