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Joyce Dunbar

Born

in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, The United Kingdom

January 06, 1944

Website

http://www.joycedunbar.com/

Genre

Children's

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Joyce grew up in an industrial town in Lincolnshire. Her father was a steelworker. When she was seven the family moved from a slum to a prefab. They thought it was a palace. She spent much of her childhood running wild, building rafts and making dens in forbidden iron ore quarries, which they called 'The Valleys.' She began to go deaf at the age of five.
She has had lots of jobs, paper girl, market trader, petrol pump attender, soda syphon promoter, nanny, waitress, barmaid, clerical assistant, playpark leader. She never expected to be a writer. Much to her surprise, she passed some exams and went to University - Goldsmith's College, London.
She got a degree and trained to be a teacher. She was told she was too deaf to teach the deaf, so she ...more

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Joyce Dunbar’s books

Average rating: 3.72 · 2,816 ratings · 534 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	Grumpy Duck by Joyce Dunbar, Petr Horáček (Illustrations) 3.56 avg rating — 324 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shoe Baby by Joyce Dunbar, Polly Dunbar (Illustrator) 3.90 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monster Who Ate Darkness by Joyce Dunbar, Jimmy Liao (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is the Star by Joyce Dunbar, Gary Blythe (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Puss Jekyll Cat Hyde by Joyce Dunbar, Jill Barton (Illustrations) 3.63 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me What It's Like to Be Big by Joyce Dunbar, Debi Gliori (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.80 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pat-a-Cake Baby by Joyce Dunbar, Polly Dunbar (Illustrations) 2.51 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Very Small by Joyce Dunbar, Debi Gliori (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oddly by Joyce Dunbar, Patrick Benson (Illustrator) 3.17 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where's My Sock? by Joyce Dunbar, Sanja Rešček (Illustrations) 3.64 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars