Martin Waddell
Autor/a de Owl Babies
Sobre l'autor
Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for mostra'n més a taxi company. Waddell is now one of the most prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton. He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Martin Waddell also writes young adult books under the pen name: Catherine Sefton.
Sèrie
Obres de Martin Waddell
Mama, wo bist du? 2 exemplars
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me [short fiction] 2 exemplars
Grandma’s Ring 1 exemplars
The importance of remaining Ernest [short story] 1 exemplars
Gwepsgodyn 1 exemplars
The pale boy [short story] 1 exemplars
Shipwreck On Old Jelly's Farm (All Aboard) 1 exemplars
The Band 1 exemplars
Harriet and the Crocodiles 1 exemplars
Hand in Hand [short fiction] 1 exemplars
The Treat [short fiction] 1 exemplars
Fried Man [short fiction] 1 exemplars
A Grande Invasão Livro 1 1 exemplars
Obres associades
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Col·laborador — 97 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Sefton, Catherine (pen name)
Waddell, M.S. (pen name) - Data de naixement
- 1941-04-10
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
Newcastle, Northern Ireland
London, England, UK - Professions
- children's book author
- Premis i honors
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (Writing, 2004)
- Biografia breu
- Under his own name he publishes mysteries, ghost stories, light comedies, and picture books for children. As Catherine Sefton he has written more complex, emotionally charged books for young adults, several of which are ghost stories while others are political novels.
- Nota de desambiguació
- Martin Waddell also writes young adult books under the pen name: Catherine Sefton.
Membres
Converses
The Three Investigators, Oh My Darlin Clementine a Name that Book (novembre 2016)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 249
- També de
- 12
- Membres
- 16,563
- Popularitat
- #1,370
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 283
- ISBN
- 1,233
- Llengües
- 34
- Preferit
- 4