Pippa Goodhart (1958-) Biography - Writings, Sidelights - Personal, Career, Honors Awards

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Born 1958; Education: Attended Leeds University and Durham University.

Writer. Heffers Children's Bookshop, Cambridge, England, bookseller and manager, 1974-1979; Rhyme and Reason Bookshop, Leicester, England, bookseller, 1986; Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, reader of children's book submissions, 1986—; tutor, Leicester Adult Education College, 1999—.

Smarties Prize shortlist, and Kathleen Fidler Award shortlist, both for Flow; East Midlands Arts' Writers' Award, 2000.

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Pippa Goodhart (1958-) - Writings

Flow, illustrated by Anthony Lewis, Heinemann (London, England), 1994. Ginny's Egg, illustrated by Aafke Brouwer, Heinemann (London, England), 1995. Hamper's Great Escape, illustrated by Caroline Holden, Oxford University Press (London, England), 1996. Lie Spider, illustrated by Rian Hughes, Mammoth (London, England), 1997. Milly, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft, Hodder (London, Engla…

Pippa Goodhart (1958-) - Sidelights

Pippa Goodhart began working with books as a bookseller at the age of sixteen. It was not until much later that she began to write for children. "I loved books, particularly children's books, and have been a bookseller and a teacher and a mother and a publisher's reader, but I had never dared to think of trying to write books myself," Goodhart told interviewers at the B…

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