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She left Britain to teach English to three Italian boys in Almafi, Italy. On her return, she joined the BBC, first as a picture researcher, then as an assistant floor manager, studio manager (news) then finally a director / adaptor with Jackanory (a BBC storytelling program for children). She left BBC to marry a Welsh artist David Wynn Millward and went to live in Whales in her husband's family home. They live in a very old converted watermill, and the river is constantly threatening to break in, as it has done several times in the past, most dramatically on her youngest child's first birthday. During the summer they run a residential school of art, and she has to move her office, put down tools (type-writer and pencil, and don an apron and cook! They have three grown-up children, Myfawny, Ianto, and Gwenwyfar.


]]> female Windsor, Berkshire 1944/01/15 9475 0439474299 9780439474290 501 <![CDATA[Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, Book 1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256067307m/9475.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256067307s/9475.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9475.Midnight_for_Charlie_Bone 3.82 3481 </div>]]> 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2002 227778 0807218987 9780807218983 151 <![CDATA[Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (The Children of the Red King, Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256042249m/227778.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256042249s/227778.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227778.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Time_Twister 3.86 2493
Charlies hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916.

With the scheming Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, and the Bloors out to catch him, Henry will need Charlie's help just to stay alive. Bloor's Academy can be a very dangerous place . . .

Book Two in The Children of the Red King series!]]> 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2002 106129 0439545269 9780439545266 125 <![CDATA[Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy (The Children of the Red King, Book 3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582685m/106129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255582685s/106129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106129.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Invisible_Boy 3.90 2457 Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, the third book in the author's planned quintet, begins when the magically "endowed" Charlie and his friend Emma discover a mostly invisible, strawberry jam-loving boy named Ollie Sparks imprisoned in the attic of the Hogwartsian Bloor's Academy. Ollie's plight is part of a seemingly amorphous Larger Evil Plot involving school authorities, a blue boa, and Charlie's three horrible great aunts. Charlie Bone and his friends are eager to fight wrongdoing with their combination of special powers, but obstacles in all shapes and sizes abound. Can the children rescue Ollie, Charlie's uncle, Ollie's older brother, and the other hapless victims...or are the enemies too plentiful and powerful? Despite the likeable Charlie and a plethora of magical happenings (raining frogs, sorcerers who escape paintings, etc.), reading this 408-page fantasy feels like a bit like running a marathon where the finish line feels farther away with every step. Thankfully, the ending is a happy one. (Ages 10 and older) --Karin Snelson

]]> 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2004 106131 0439545285 9780439545280 99 <![CDATA[Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors (The Children of the Red King, Book 4)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106131.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Castle_of_Mirrors 3.92 2200 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2005 47881 0439545307 9780439545303 99 <![CDATA[Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (The Children of the Red King, Book 5)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255695935m/47881.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255695935s/47881.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47881.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Hidden_King 4.04 1979 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2006 47878 043984665X 9780439846653 105 <![CDATA[Charlie Bone and the Beast (The Children of the Red King, Book 6)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47878.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Beast 4.00 1582
Manfred has also taken the new endowed student, Dagobert Endless, under his wing and Charlie is highly suspicious of the pair. Can the Flames and Charlie rescue Asa without being caught by Manfred and Dagobert?]]> 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2007 2854962 0439846692 9780439846691 109 <![CDATA[Charlie Bone and the Shadow (The Children of the Red King, Book 7)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255854434m/2854962.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255854434s/2854962.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2854962.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Shadow 4.02 862 Can Charlie outwit Court Harken and his sinister troops, or will the prisoners be doomed to being held captive in Badlock forever?

Jenny Nimmo is an award-winning author who lives with her painter husband in a converted mill in Wales. Her books include THE SNOW SPIDER, winner of the Smarties Prize, EMYLN'S MOON, THE CHESTNUT SOLDIER, and GRIFFIN'S CASTLE, which was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, and the W.H. Smith's Mind Boggling Award. THE OWL TREE won the Smarties Gold Prize Award for six- to eight-year-olds, and THE CHARLIE BONE books have repeatedly found their way on to bestseller lists.

]]> 6206 3.89 16950 1444 2008 21318 0439846757 9780439846752 72 <![CDATA[The Snow Spider (The Magician Trilogy, Book 1)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21318.The_Snow_Spider 3.58 442 6206 3.89 16950 1444 1986 47870 0439846765 9780439846769 19 <![CDATA[Emlyn's Moon (The Magician Trilogy, Book 2)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47870.Emlyn_s_Moon 3.63 251 6206 3.89 16950 1444 1987 47876 0439925002 9780439925006 17 <![CDATA[The Chestnut Soldier (The Magician Trilogy, Book 3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47876.The_Chestnut_Soldier 3.58 187 6206 3.89 16950 1444 1989