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Frank Cottrell Boyce - Children's Author
Frank Cottrell Boyce is an accomplished, successful and well-known screen and television writer who lives with his family in Liverpool. Frank’s first book, Millions, won the 2004 Carnegie Medal and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in the same year. Frank has also been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012 for his book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again.
His novel The Unforgotten Coat won the 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
On winning the prize Frank Cottrell Boyce said: “It would be amazing to win this award with any book I'd written but it is a special joy to win it with The Unforgotten Coat, which started life not as a published book at all, but as a gift. Walker gave away thousands of copies in Liverpool - on buses, at ferry terminals, through schools, prisons and hospitals - to help promote the mighty Reader Organisation. We even had the book launch on a train. The photographs in the book, were created by my friends and neighbours - Carl Hunter and Claire Heaney. The story was based on a real incident in a school in Bootle. So everything about it comes from very close to home - even though it's a story about Xanadu!
“Being shortlisted for the Guardian Prize gives you a particularly warm glow because it is awarded by a panel of your fellow authors. Past winners include my childhood heroes - Alan Garner, Leon Garfield, Joan Aiken - and contemporary heroes like Mark Haddon, Geraldine McCaughrean and Meg Rosoff.”
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Frank Cottrell Boyce
Winner of 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize "The judges read extensively and intensely in their search for the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize this year, but decided unanimously that The Unforgotten Coat's great immediacy and humour really set it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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The second official sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written by one of the country's favourite authors, Frank Cottrell Boyce jumps into the driving seat with his trademark wit, warmth and sense of story to bring a new...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/09/2012
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Uh-oh! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is stuck in reverse. And Little Harry's pressed a button that means she's reversing through time - with the Tootings aboard. When they finally come to a stop, it's at the feet of a very...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2012
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Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012. Award winning Frank Cottrell Boyce breathes new life into the classic story of a flying car originally conceived by James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming. When Mr Tooting loses his job he embarks...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2012
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Interest Age Teen Reading Age 8+. A delicious comedy in which geeky George, whose passion for Warhammer games has long made him a social outcast, is transformed by some past its sell by date after shave. Suddenly everyone wants to...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Award winning Frank Cottrell Boyce breathes new life into the classic story of a flying car originally conceived by James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming. When Mr Tooting loses his job he embarks on an exciting new project to restore a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Winner 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize "The judges read extensively and intensely in their search for the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize this year, but decided unanimously that The Unforgotten Coat's great immediacy and humour really set it apart.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008, the Carnegie Medal and for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster adventure that takes Liam Digby...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2009
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Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster adventure that takes Liam Digby up into space with a handful of other children and their parents. It’s an hilarious journey of discovery as Liam hurtles around the world finding out exactly...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2008
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Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down.' 9 - 12 years. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: Cottrell Boyce’s second children’s novel is original, charming and funny. A choice of Guest Editors Philip Ardargh...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2006
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Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: Cottrell Boyce’s second children’s novel is original, charming and funny. It is a poignant and pacey adventure with a tightly structured plot full of humour, wisdom and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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When a bag stuffed full of money falls out of a train and into their camp, Damian and Anthony are suddenly rich. Very, very rich, to be precise. But, there is a problem. They only have a few days in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/10/2004
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