Martin Waddell
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) Martin Waddell also writes young adult books under the pen name: Catherine Sefton.
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Werken van Martin Waddell
Am großen weiten Meer 2 exemplaren
Mama, wo bist du? 2 exemplaren
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
The importance of remaining Ernest [short story] 1 exemplaar
Grandma’s Ring 1 exemplaar
The pale boy [short story] 1 exemplaar
Harriet and the Crocodiles 1 exemplaar
Shipwreck On Old Jelly's Farm (All Aboard) 1 exemplaar
A Grande Invasão Livro 1 1 exemplaar
Hi, Harry! Paperback January 5, 2004 1 exemplaar
The Band 1 exemplaar
Das große Geschichtenbuch vom kleinen Bären 1 exemplaar
Disney: Das große Olaf-Wimmelbuch: Fröhlicher Suchspaß mit Olaf, Elsa, Anna und ihren Freunden 1 exemplaar
Danke 1 exemplaar
Fried Man [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
Hand in Hand [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
The Treat [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
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On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Medewerker — 98 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Sefton, Catherine (pen name)
Waddell, M.S. (pen name) - Geboortedatum
- 1941-04-10
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
- Woonplaatsen
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
Newcastle, Northern Ireland
London, England, UK - Beroepen
- children's book author
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (Writing, 2004)
- Korte biografie
- 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.
- Ontwarringsbericht
- Martin Waddell also writes young adult books under the pen name: Catherine Sefton.
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The Three Investigators, Oh My Darlin Clementine in Name that Book (november 2016)
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