Angie Sage
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Angie Sage | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 June 1952 Thames Valley, England, UK |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Notable works | Septimus Heap series |
| Children | 2[1] |
Angie Sage (born 20 June 1952)[2] is an English author of children's literature, including the Septimus Heap series, the TodHunter Moon trilogy, and the Araminta Spook series (Araminta Spookie, in the United States).
Life
According to her publisher's biography, Sage grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent. She tells how her publisher father brought home blank books, and she would write and illustrate her own stories in these. She began to study medicine, but moved instead to the Art School in Leicester to study graphic design and illustration, using these skills to begin illustrating books.
Her first novel was the first in her Septimus Heap series: Magyk.[3]
Publications
The following is a list of books written by Angie Sage. It does not include books she only illustrated.
Board books
- 1981: The Nightmare Song - from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan
- 1998: Alphabet Express
- 1999: Number Bus
- 2000: Rainbow Rocket
- 2000: Animals on Safari
- 2000: Noah's Ark
- 2001: Alphabet Bus
- 2001: Learning Bus
- 2001: Farmyard Families
- 2002: Sea Life Sub
Septimus Heap series
- Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk (Released 2005)[4]
- Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte (Released 2006)[5]
- Septimus Heap, Book Three: Physik (Released 2007)[6]
- Septimus Heap, Book Four: Queste (Released 2008)[7]
- Septimus Heap, The Magykal Papers (Released 2009, supplement to the series)
- Septimus Heap, Book Five: Syren (Released 2009)[8]
- Septimus Heap, Book Six: Darke (Released 2011)
- Septimus Heap, Book Seven: Fyre (Released 2013)
TodHunter Moon trilogy (sequel to Septimus Heap series)
- TodHunter Moon, Book One: PathFinder (Released 2014)
- TodHunter Moon, Book Two: SandRider (Released 13 October 2015)
- TodHunter Moon, Book Three: StarChaser (Released 11 October 2016) [9]
Araminta Spook series
- Araminta Spook, Book One: My Haunted House (Released 2006)
- Araminta Spook, Book Two: The Sword in the Grotto (Released 2006)
- Araminta Spook, Book Three: Frognapped (Released 2007)
- Araminta Spook, Book Four: Vampire Brat (Released 2007)
- Araminta Spook, Book Five: Ghostsitters (Released 2008)
- Araminta Spook, Book Six: Gargoyle Hall (Released 2014 in the UK)
- Araminta Spook, Book Seven: Skeleton Island (Released 2015 in the UK)
Other books
- Rise of the Dragons, Book One (Released February 6, 2019)
References
- ^ Sage, Angie. "Angie Sage: My Story". Angie Sage. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ Birthday tweet from Angie Sage, twitter.com; accessed 23 April 2018.
- ^ "Angie Sage". Goodreads. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ Magyk
- ^ Flyte
- ^ Physik
- ^ Queste
- ^ Syren
- ^ StarChaser at amazon.com
External links
- Angie Sage article Archived 4 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine at Kidsreads.com
- Angie Sage interview at Bookbrowse.com
- Angie Sage at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Use dmy dates from August 2013
- 1952 births
- English fantasy writers
- English horror writers
- English illustrators
- British women illustrators
- British children's writers
- British children's book illustrators
- Writers who illustrated their own writing
- Living people
- People from Kent
- English women writers
- 20th-century illustrators of fairy tales
- 21st-century illustrators of fairy tales
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English people