Martin Waddell
Auteur de Bébés chouettes
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Martin Waddell also writes young adult books under the pen name: Catherine Sefton.
Séries
Œuvres de Martin Waddell
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Mama, wo bist du? 2 exemplaires
Hand in Hand [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
The Band 1 exemplaire
The Treat [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
Shipwreck On Old Jelly's Farm (All Aboard) 1 exemplaire
The pale boy [short story] 1 exemplaire
The importance of remaining Ernest [short story] 1 exemplaire
Danke 1 exemplaire
Disney: Das große Olaf-Wimmelbuch: Fröhlicher Suchspaß mit Olaf, Elsa, Anna und ihren Freunden 1 exemplaire
Das große Geschichtenbuch vom kleinen Bären 1 exemplaire
Bad Gluggy 1 exemplaire
A Grande Invasão Livro 1 1 exemplaire
Fried Man [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Contributeur — 98 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Sefton, Catherine (pen name)
Waddell, M.S. (pen name) - Date de naissance
- 1941-04-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieux de résidence
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
Newcastle, Northern Ireland
London, England, UK - Professions
- children's book author
- Prix et distinctions
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (Writing, 2004)
- Courte biographie
- 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.
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Martin Waddell also writes young adult books under the pen name: Catherine Sefton.
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The Three Investigators, Oh My Darlin Clementine à Name that Book (Novembre 2016)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 249
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 17,016
- Popularité
- #1,307
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 288
- ISBN
- 1,237
- Langues
- 35
- Favoris
- 4