Alan MacDonald - Children's Author

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 dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, but when he won a pen in a writing competition, his fate was sealed.

Alan has written over eighty children's books, which have been translated into many languages and won several awards. In 2010, Dirty Bertie: Loo! was winner of the Leicestershire Children's Book Prize. Alan also writes for TV, including the hugely popular 'Horrid Henry' on CITV.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Alan MacDonald

Toothy!
Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie, the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits, returns for another helping of comic chaos in the 19th book of this successful series.
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Dirty Bertie is 10
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2013
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Scream!
Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he builds his very own haunted house, bites off more than he can chew during a class outing to...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Dirty Bertie is 10
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2012
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Dirty Bertie : Pong!
Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he comes a cropper on his Chopper, tests his patience - and everyone else's - on a bird-watching trip,...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Dirty Bertie is 10
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
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Dirty Bertie : Snow!
Alan MacDonald
5+. Delightfully disgusting, these three stories about Bertie, a boy whose habits are far from clean, will delight emerging readers. As ever, Dirty Bertie is bursting with mad plans and crazy schemes all of which spell trouble for him and...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Dirty Bertie is 10
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Dirty Bertie : Kiss!
Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he struggles to escape from the clutches of Angela Nicely, attempts to prove that anything Know-All Nick can do,...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Dirty Bertie is 10 | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2011
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Dirty Bertie: Fangs!
Alan MacDonald
7 +. Disgusting Dirty Bertie is back for a new set of mucky adventures. As ever he has some crazy plans up his sleeve most of which involve him being disgusting in more ways than can easily be imagined. This...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Dirty Bertie is 10
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2010
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Worms!
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....
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Dirty Bertie is 10
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2006
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