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Alan Macdonald

Alan was born in Watford and went to university in Bangor, North Wales, where he studied English and Drama. He started working life in a travelling theatre company, visiting schools all over the country & writing much of their material. He says it was a useful apprenticeship - if the audience didn't like the play, they talked through it or threw bits of paper at the actors. He very quickly learned what children liked.

Alan later trained as a drama teacher at Nottingham University, but most of his work in connection with the theatre has been as a writer or director. Other jobs have included working as an editor and working in a day centre.

A keen football fan, Alan has supported Watford FC since childhood. Many of his stories have a football focus - which he rates as the next best thing to playing for England!

He has written stories and dramas for the BBC (both television and radio), as well as many children's books.

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Dirty Bertie: Loo!
Dirty Bertie: Loo!
Alan Macdonald
Dirty Bertie is back for another helping of comic chaos! Bertie finds himself desperate to go to the loo on the school coach, up to his neck in sand and trouble on holiday, and staging a one-man protest to stop...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2010
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History of Warts, Honesty Wart: Witch Hunter!
History of Warts, Honesty Wart: Witch Hunter!
Alan Macdonald
A very funny new series from the creator of Trolls, it’s a brilliant mix of Horrible Histories and Blackadder. Fast-moving, side-splittingly funny, irreverent adventure stories are played out against the backdrop of great and gruesome history through one family tree,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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History of Warts. Sir Bigwart: Knight Of The Wonky Table
History of Warts. Sir Bigwart: Knight Of The Wonky Table
Alan Macdonald
A very funny new series from the creator of Trolls, it’s a brilliant mix of Horrible Histories and Blackadder. Fast-moving, side-splittingly funny, irreverent adventure stories are played out against the backdrop of great and gruesome history through one family tree,...
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History of Warts: Ditherus Wart: (accidental) Gladiator
History of Warts: Ditherus Wart: (accidental) Gladiator
Alan Macdonald
A very funny new series from the creator of Trolls, it’s a brilliant mix of Horrible Histories and Blackadder.  Fast-moving, side-splittingly funny, irreverent adventure stories are played out against the backdrop of great and gruesome history through one family tree,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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History of Warts: Custardly Wart: Pirate (third Class)
History of Warts: Custardly Wart: Pirate (third Class)
Alan Macdonald
A very funny new series from the creator of Trolls, it’s a brilliant mix of Horrible Histories and Blackadder. Fast-moving, side-splittingly funny, irreverent adventure stories are played out against the backdrop of great and gruesome history through one family tree,...
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Dirty Bertie: Fleas
Dirty Bertie: Fleas
Alan Macdonald
Meet Dirty Bertie - a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further - Bertie's sure to be up to his neck in it.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2006
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Books by Alan Macdonald

NIV Schools Bible
NIV Schools Bible
ternational Bible Society , Alan MacDonald
The New International Version of the Bible in an attractive and durable hardback edition with sewn bindings suitable for schools.
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/06/2008
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A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920
A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920
T.C. Smout, Alan R. MacDonald, Fiona Watson
The first modern history of Scottish woodlands explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period 1500 to 1920. Includes 69 illustrations, in both b/w and colour.
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/11/2004
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The Wakey Wakey Machine
The Wakey Wakey Machine
Alan MacDonald, Elizabeth St John, Robert Louis Stevenson
Do you have problems waking up? Then try the fantastic, boombastic wakey wakey machine! This text is part of a series of books that are suitable for children who are starting to read for themselves.
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/01/2001
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