Paul Bright (author)
 | This article, Paul Bright (author), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
| This article, Paul Bright (author), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
Comment: What this specifically needs is major book reviews. SwisterTwister talk 06:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
- Comment: Not notable since he's not held in a significant number of libraries and nothing else here is beyond trivial and unconvincing, and unfortunately is not convincing notability. SwisterTwister talk 05:22, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Paul Bright (born 1949) is a writer mainly of picture books and poetry for children. His stories have featured on BBC CBeebies and CITV’s Bookaboo programmes.[1][2] Paul has also written stories for CBeebies radio, and for the BBC Jam and BBC RaW web sites, as well as poems for school reading schemes. His picture book ‘Quiet!’, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award (2004)[3] and ‘I’m Not Going Out There!’, illustrated by Ben Cort won the Stockport Schools’ Book Award (2007). ‘Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch’, illustrated by Michael Terry, was shortlisted for the Red House Book Award (2010). His most recent picture book is 'The Hole Story'[4], with illustrations by Bruce Ingman. Paul is one of four authors selected to write new Winnie-the-Pooh stories for ‘The Best Bear in all the World’, an official sequel to the classic stories by A. A. Milne, published in Oct 2016 to celebrate 90 years since the publication of ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’.[5][6][7][8] Paul has appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Wigtown Book Festival. His name consistently features in the lists of the top 500 most borrowed authors from UK public libraries
Biography
Paul was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and attended WGC High School. He studied Engineering Science at Reading University and subsequently obtained an MSc in Polymer Technology from Loughborough University and PhD from Cranfield Institute of Technology. Paul worked for 35 years in the plastics and chemicals industries, in the UK, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Spain. Writing was a hobby for many years, with Paul attending a number of residential writing courses run by The Arvon Foundation. His first short story for children appeared in a compilation ‘Time Watch’ published by Orion Children’s Books in 1997. In the following years he had many children’s poems in compilations published by Macmillan, Hodder, Oxford University Press and others. Paul’s first picture book, ‘Under the Bed’, illustrated by Ben Cort, was published in 2003 by Little Tiger Press. Paul is married, with two children, and lives in Kent. He is represented by the Curtis Brown agency.
Bibliography
| The Gingerbread Channel, in Time Watch | (Orion Children’s Books, 1997) |
| Under the Bed | (Little Tiger Press, 2003) |
| Quiet! | (Little Tiger Press, 2003) |
| Nobody Laughs at a Lion | (Little Tiger Press, 2005) |
| I’m Not Going Out There! | (Little Tiger Press, 2006) |
| The Bears in the Bed and the Great Big Storm | (Little Tiger Press, 2008) |
| Fidgety Fish and Friends | (Little Tiger Press, 2008) |
| Grumpy Badger’s Christmas | (Little Tiger Press, 2009) |
| Charlie’s Superhero Underpants | (Little Tiger Press, 2009) |
| Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch! | (Little Tiger Press, 2009) |
| What’s More Scary Than a Shark? | (Little Tiger Press, 2010) |
| Fuzzy-Wuzzy Bugs | (Little Tiger Press, 2010) |
| Boris’s Big Bogey | (Little Tiger Press, 2011) |
| The Not-So Scary Snorklum | (Little Tiger Press, 2011) |
| Muddypaws’ First Christmas | (Parragon Books, 2012) |
| If You Meet a Dinosaur | (Little Tiger Press, 2013) |
| Sam’s Super Stinky Socks | (Simon and Schuster, 2014) |
| The Hole Story | (Andersen Press, 2016) |
| There’s a Bison Bouncing on the Bed | (Little Tiger Press, 2016) |
| The Best Bear in All the World | (co-writer)(Egmont Publishing, 2016) |
Web site: http://www.paulbright.co.uk Agent: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/paul-bright
References
- ^ "The Reading Agency | Children | Bookaboo". readingagency.org.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ "BOOKABOO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL WITH JIM CARTER, UK". 19 December 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ "BBC - Press Office - Blue Peter Book Awards 2004 shortlist". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ "Children's Books - Reviews - The Hole Story | BfK No. 218". booksforkeeps.co.uk.
- ^ Sibley, Brian (14 October 2016). "Winnie-the-Pooh at 90: still the best bear in all the world". The Guardian.
- ^ "EGMONT REVEALS THE FOUR WRITERS OF THE NEXT WINNIE-THE-POOH SEQUEL: THE BEST BEAR IN All THE WORLD". www.egmont.co.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Williams, Imogen Russell (26 November 2016). "Children's books roundup: the best new picture books and novels". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ "Event's peerless critics pick their favourite books of 2016". Mail Online.