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Joyce Dunbar

 

Children's Fiction

  • Moonbird (Random House 2006) Buy Now

  • Where's My Sock (Chicken House 2006) Buy Now

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwalfs (Retelling) (Scholastic 2005)  Buy Now

  • I Wish (Random House 2005) Buy Now

  • Shoe Baby (Walker 2005) Buy Now

  • Boo The The Who In The Dark (Scholastic 2004) Buy Now

  • The Railway Angel (Transworld) Buy Now

  • The Love-Me Bird (Scholastic 2003)Buy Now

  • A Chick Called Saturday (Transworld 2003) Buy Now

  • Magic Lemonade (Egmont 2003) Buy Now

  • Tell Me What It's Like To Be Big (Transworld 2001) Buy Now

  • The Very Small (Transworld 2000) Buy Now

  • The Glass Garden (Frances Lincoln 1999) Buy Now

  • Eggday (Levinson 1999)  Egguideay Buy Now

  • The Sand Children (Macdonald 1998)

  • The Pig Who Wished (Dorling Kindersley 1998)

  • Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep (Transworld 1998) Buy Now

  • Baby Bird (Walker 1998) Buy Now  

  • If You Want To Be A Cat (Macdonald 1997)

  • Hansel & Gretel (Macdonald 1997)

  • The Selfish Snail (Hamish Hamilton 1997)

  • This Is The Star (Transworld 1996) Buy Now

  • Freddie The Frog (Ginn 1996)

  • Indigo And The Whale (Frances Lincoln 1996) Buy Now

  • Oops-A-Daisy (Walker 1995)

  • The Nutty Novelty Knitting (Pan 1995)

  • The Great Computer Stupor (Pan 1995)

  • Little Eight John (Retelling) (Ginn 1994)

  • Doodling Daniel (X4) (Longman Education 1994) Buy Now

  • Brown Bear, Snow Bear (Walker Books 1994)

  • The Wishing Fish Tree (Ginn 1994)

  • The Spring Rabbit (Anderson Press 1994) Buy Now  

  • Seven Sillies (Anderson Press 1993)

  • Read Aloud Story Book (Kingfisher 1993)

  • Can Do (Simon & Schuster 1992)

  • Four Fierce Kittens (Orchard 1991) Buy Now

  • Lollopy (Anderson Press 1991) Buy Now

  • Why Is The Sky Up? (Dent 1991)

  • I Want A Blue Banana (Dent 1991)

  • Giant Jim And Tiny Tim (Collins Educational 1991)

  • The Scarecrow (Collins Educational 1991)

  • Five Mice And The Moon (Orchard 1990)

  • Ten Little Mice (Methuen 1990) Buy Now

  • Joanna And The Bean-Bag Beastie (Ginn 1989)

  • One Frosty Friday Morning (Ginn 1989)

  • Billy And The Brolly Boy (Ginn 1988)

  • Tomatoes And Potatoes (Ginn 1988)

  • Mouse Mad Madeline (Hamish Hamilton 1988)

  • I Wish I Liked Rice Pudding (Simon & Schuster 1989)

  • Ollie Oddbin's Skylark (Heinemann 1989) Buy Now

  • Software Superslug And (Simon & Schuster 1989)

  • Software Superslug (Simon & Schuster 1987)

  • The Raggy Taggy Toys (Orchard 1987)

  • A Bun For Barney (Orchard 1987)

  • Mundo And The Weather-Child (Heinemann 1985)

  • The Magic Rose Bough (Hodder & Stoughton 1984)

  • Jugg (Scolar Press 1980)
     

Children's Fiction (Panda & Gander Series)

  • Panda's New Toy (Walker Books 1999) Buy Now

  • Gander's Pond (Walker Books 1999) Buy Now

  • The Secret Friend (Walker Books 1999) Buy Now

  • Tutti-Frutti (Walker Books 1999) Buy Now

 

Children's Fiction (Mouse and Mole Series)

  • Mouse And Mole (Transworld 1993)

  • Mouse And Mole Have A Party (Transworld 1993)

  • Happy Days For Mouse & Mole (Transworld 1996)

  • A Very Special Mouse & Mole (Transworld 1996)

  • Hip-Dip-Dip With Mouse And Mole (Transworld 2000) Buy Now

  • The Ups And Downs Of Mouse And Mole (Transworld 2001) Buy Now

 

Children's Non-fiction

  • Nightlights (Meditations For Children) (Duncan Baird) Buy Now  

 

Non-fiction (History, Local History)

  • Voices & Visions: A Celebration Of Norwich Market (Mousehold Press 2004) Buy Now

 

Non-fiction (Travel)

  • Cycle Cuba (Journal) (Ginn 1999)

 

Biography

 

Joyce Dunbar has written over 70 books for children. Her best known titles are Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep, This Is The Star, and the Mouse And Mole series.

After many years teaching literature to mature students, she became a full time writer in 1989. In 1985 she was runner up for the Guardian Fiction Award with Mundo And The Weather Child, a novel about the imaginary friend of a deaf child. In 2002 she did a book tour in the US to promote Tell Me Something Happy, which is widely recommended as a book to help children feel secure. The Mouse & Mole series was animated for television with Alan Bennett and Richard Briers playing the lead roles. These stories were also on tour from December 2005 to April 20006 as the final production of Tiebreak theatre company. Another picture book Shoe Baby (Walker 2005), illustrated by her daughter Polly, has been produced as a puppet show and is part of the 2006 Brighton Festival, May 2006.

In 2001 she was writer in residence on Norwich Market, producing a book called Voices And Visions (Mousehold Press).

She was founder member of EAW in 1990, shortly after coming to live in Norwich, and was secretary for five years. She has also served on the committee of CWIG and on the judging panel of the Mother Goose Award. At present she is on the steering group for a project run by SCOPE called In The Picture, about the representation of disabled children in picture books.

She still does some teaching, most notably on the holistic Greek holiday Island of Skyros. In September 2006 she will take up a Royal Literary Fund writing Fellowship at UEA. She regularly visits schools and in October 2006 was one of five writers in residence at Jarrolds, Norwich.

She has two grown up children, Ben, a fashion photographer and Polly, an author illustrator. She lives in the centre of Norwich.

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