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Geordie
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The sale of children's book sales are counted in tens, or even hundreds of thousands, and overseas publishers are gabbling them up just as fast as the new crop of writers can them out. While J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, is the biggest star, another recent arrival, David Almond, has been quietly vacuuming up awards with a sombre story of a boy and an angel. His Skelling snatched the Whitbread Children's Book award from under Harry Potter's , and he also made with the prestigious ”Veggie medal". For the forty-seven-year-old Geordie, it is all rather bemusing. Until recently, he was a part-time teacher at a special school who wrote in his spare time, mostly short stories for anthologies and magazines. He thought he might lucky when be finished his first full-length novel for adults - but after touting it around thirty-three publishers, he finally it to his bottom drawer and, trouper that he was, to writing the next book.
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