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Thomas Docherty

Thomas never thought he would end up writing stories. At school he wasn’t good at spelling and reading was a real struggle. Luckily his Mum and Dad read to him and took him to the library where he spent hours looking at Asterix books. Even so, it wasn’t until many years later, after he had been through school and Art College, that he wrote his first children’s book. It was called ‘Pip and the Lost Dream’ and it is published in Spain, Taiwan and South Africa. Now Thomas does most of his work in the UK and is based in Bristol, where he lives with his wife Helen and daughter Lucia. Whenever possible he likes to go along to schools and libraries to talk to the kids about his work and help them write and draw their own stories.

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Big Scary Monster
Big Scary Monster
Thomas Docherty
Engagingly scary but also containing an important message about sharing not scaring, this tells what happens when the monster finds the tables are turned and instead of being scary himself he is being scared! Young readers will enjoy the frisson of the Big...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Big Scary Monster
Big Scary Monster
Thomas Docherty
Engagingly scary but also containing an important message about sharing not scaring, this tells what happens when the monster finds the tables are turned and instead of being scary himself he is being scared! Young readers will enjoy the frisson...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2009
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Little Boat
Little Boat
Thomas Docherty
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Wonderfully detailed yet simple illustrations coupled with minimal text make this an absolutely fantastic picture book to enjoy with even the youngest toddler.  Later this year, this title will be joined by an...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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To The Beach
To The Beach
Thomas Docherty
Docherty's Little Boat has recently been shortlisted for the prestigious Greenaway Medal so we thought we'd introduce to you an earlier title of his that is equally captivating. Join a delightful little boy when he decides he wants to go...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Little Boat
Little Boat
Thomas Docherty
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Wonderfully detailed yet simple illustrations coupled with minimal text make this an absolutely fantastic picture book to enjoy with even the youngest toddler.  Later this year, this title will be joined by an...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2008
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Books by Thomas Docherty

Big Scary Monster
Big Scary Monster
Thomas Docherty

Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2009
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Little Boat
Little Boat
Thomas Docherty

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English Question Or Academic Freedoms
English Question Or Academic Freedoms
Thomas Docherty, John Schad
To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So arguing, this study begins with the claim that the fundamental idea...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/12/2007
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Fly, Pigeon, Fly!
Fly, Pigeon, Fly!
John Henderson, Julia Donaldson, Thomas Docherty
When a boy finds a young pigeon, half starved, in a derelict warehouse in Glasgow, he names the pigeon Percy and takes him home. He looks after him and even teaches him to fly. Da says that Percy should be...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/06/2006
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Criticism and Modernity Aesthetics, Literature and Nations in Europe and Its Academies
Criticism and Modernity Aesthetics, Literature and Nations in Europe and Its Academies
Thomas Docherty
This work traces the conditions under which criticism emerged as a socio-cultural practice within the institutionalized forms of European modernity and democracy. It argues that criticism was born out of anxieties about national supremacy in the late-17th century.
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/1999
Price: £79.00
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