Female : Children's writer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Nottinghamshire

Date of Birth : 1934

1960-1965
Sonya-by-the-Shore (1960 Dent) - Robin Jane Wells
Jumbo Spencer (1963 Brockhampton) - Clixby Watson
The White Sea Horse (1964 Oliver & Boyd) - Robin Jacques
Jumbo Back to Nature (1965 Brockhampton) - Leslie Wood
Pietro and the Mule (1965 O & B) - Maureen Eckersley

1966-1970
Jumbo Afloat (1966 Brockhampton) - Leslie Wood
Where the Wind Blows (1966 Faber) (1968 Funk & Wagnalls) - Peggy Fortnum
The Piemakers (1967 Faber) - V H Drumond
A Day on Big O (1967 Benn) - Shirley Hughes
A Tide for the Captain (1967 O & B) - Robin Jacques
The Signposters (1968 Faber) - Gareth Floyd
Jumbo and the Big Dig (1968 Brockhampton) - Leslie Wood
The Barge Children (1968 Hodder & Stoughton) - Lynette Hemmant
The Sea Piper (1968 O & B) - Robin Jacques
The Night-watchmen (1969 Faber) - G Floyd
A Gift from Winklesea (1969 Brockhampton)
A Game of Catch (1969 O & B) - G Floyd
A House for Jones (1969 Benn) - Margaret Gordon
The Outlanders (1970 Faber) - Doreen Roberts
Rainbow Pavement (1970 Ben) - Shirley Hughes
The Wilkeses (1970 BBC) - G Floyd

1971-1975
The Bird Fancier (1971 Benn) - Renate Meyer
Up the Pier (1971 Faber) - G Floyd
The Weather Cat (1971 Benn)
The Beachcombers (1972 Faber) - Errol le Cain
Bluebirds Over Pit Row (1972 Benn) - Richard Kennedy
Jane's Policeman (1972 Benn) - Margery Gill
The Long Day (1972 Benn) - Margery Gill
Roof Fall ! (1972 Benn) - R Kennedy
Short Back and Sides (1972 Benn) - R Kennedy
The Beetle Hunt (1973 Longman) - Anne Knight
The Bongleweed (1973 Faber) - Ann Strugnell
The Bower Birds (1973 Benn) - Margery Gill
Lizzie Dripping (1973 BBC) - Jenny Thorne
Lizzie dripping by the Sea (1974 BBC) - Faith Jacques
Lizzie Dripping and the Little Angel (1974 BBC) - Faith Jacques
Lizzie Dripping Again (1974 BBC) - Faith Jacques
Two Hoots (1974-77 Benn) - Martin Blanc Six vols
More Lizzie Dripping (1974 BBC) - F Jacques
Butterfly Chase (1975 Kestrel) - M Gill
The Winter of Birds (1975 Faber)

The Bagthorpe Saga
(illus Jill Bennett)
Ordinary Jack (1977 Faber)
Absolute Zero (1978 Faber)
Bagthorpes Unlimited (1978 Faber)
Bagthorpes v. the World (1979 Faber)
Bagthorpes Abroad (1984 Faber)
Bagthorpes Haunted (1985 Macmillan US) (1985 Faber)
The Bagthorpe Saga (1991)
Bagthorpes Beseiged (1996)

1976-1990
Donkey Days (1977 Benn) - Shirley Hughes
Awful Jack (1977 H & S) - Joanna Stubbs
The Flyaway Kite (1979 Kestrel) - Bridget Clarke
My Aunt Polly by the Sea (1980 Wheaton) - M Gordon
Dear Shrink (1982 Faber)
The Secret World of Polly Flint (1982 Faber) - Shirley Felts
Ellie and Hagwitch (1984 Hardy) - Jonathan Heap
Alice's Adventures in ..... Birmingham (1986 Malin)
Moondial (1987 Faber) - P J Lynch
Trouble (1987 Gollancz) - Margaret Chamberlain
Time Out (1987)
Dragon Ride (1987)
Fox in a Maze (1988)
Greedy Alice (1989)
Rosie and the Boredom Eater (1989)
The Story of Grace Darling (1989)
Whatever Happened at Winklesea ? (1989)
Almost Goodbye Guzzler (1990)
Meet Posy Bates (1990)

After 1991
Posy Bates Again (1991)
Lizzie Dripping and the Witch (1991)
The Return of the Psammead (1992)
Posy Bates and the Bag Lady (1993)
The Watchers : Mystery at Alton Towers (1993)
Stonestruck (1995)
Mystery Stories (1996)
Mister Maggs (1996)
Bag of Bones (1997)
Sophie and the Seawolf (1997)
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
The Little Grey Donkey (1998)
Garlunk (1998)