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Martin Waddell has twice won
the Smarties Book Prize - for Can't You Sleep, Little
Bear? and Farmer Duck (also Winner of the British
Book Awards: Children's Illustrated Book of the Year) -
as well as the Best Books for Babies Award for Rosie's
Babies and the Kurt Maschler Award for The Park in
the Dark. Other titles include Who Do You Love?;
A Kitten Called Moonlight; Owl Babies; Night
Night, Cuddly Bear; Tom Rabbit; The
Pig in the Pond; Webster J. Duck; Snow Bears
and many award-winning novels for older readers.
Martin Waddell is widely regarded
as one of the finest contemporary writers of books for young
people. Twice winner of the Smarties Book Prize - for Farmer
Duck and Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? - he also
won the Kurt Maschler Award for The Park in the Dark
and the Best Books for Babies Award for Rosie's Babies.
Among his many other titles are the novels The Haunting
of Ellen; Tango's Baby; The Life and Loves
of Zoë T. Curley; The Kidnapping of Suzie
Q; and his trilogy about the troubles in Northern Ireland:
Starry Night (Winner of the Other Award, runner-up
for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and shortlisted
for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize), Frankie's
Story and The Beat of the Drum. He was the Irish
nominee for the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Profile
supplied by Walker Books. Last Updated December 2002.
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