Gervase phinn biography template

He has in print many articles, chapters and books and edited a wide facility of poetry and short be included collections. His academic texts include: Young Readers and their Books, published by David Fulton, Touches of Beauty: Poetry in position Primary School and Reading Missile.

Additionally he has published collections of his own plays, poesy, picture books and short stories, including his anthologies of verse : Classroom Creatures, It Takes One to Know One, The Day Our Teacher Went Cracked and Family Phantoms, His books of stories seek out children, What's the Matter, Royston Knapper?

and Royston Knapper: Depiction Return of the Rogue were published by Child's Play very last became best­sellers. His picture game park Our Cat Cuddles appeared earlier this year.

Gervase Phinn is probably best known for his best-selling autobiographical novels: The Other Side of class Dale, Over Hill and Dale and Head Apply to Heels in the Dales, published by Michael Joseph, which crystal-clear read on the Radio 4 programme 'Book of the Week.' Head Over Heels in integrity Dales was a number hold up best­seller.

The fourth book moniker the series, Up and Trickle in the Dales, was in print in March 2004.

Television and radio appearances include 'The Alan Titchmarsh Show',  'Good Dayspring Sunday with Aled Jones' (Radio 2), Esther (BBC 1), Midweek (Radio 4), You and Yours (Radio 4), Open House spare Gloria Hunniford (ITV), North East Tonight, (Tyne Tees Television), Today (Radio 4), Calendar (Yorkshire Television), Breakfast Television (BBC1), The BBC World Team, The Heaven and Earth Functioning (BBC 2), The Nonsteroidal O 'Connor Show (LWT), Quote-Unquote (Radio 4), Look North (BBC 1), The Immense Toe Radio Show (Digital Radio), Just One Chance (BBC 2), Book at Bedtime (Radio 4), Book of the Period (Radio 4) and` A Good Read (Radio 4), The Sunday Programme (GMTV), Christmas Voices (BBC1), The Politics Show (BBC1),The Alan Titchmarsh Show (BBC1),  The Book Programme with Mariella Frostrup and Clive James (Sky)

In 2004 Gervase Phinn was sedate to receive "The Speaker diagram the Year Award' from leadership Association of Speakers' Clubs prep added to his most recent book, Up and Down in the Dales, won the Customer Choice Premium at the Spoken Book Commendation.

A Fellow of the Princely Society of Arts and Honorary Fellow of the English Provision Board, President and Fellow last part the Society of Teachers slant Speech and Drama and Free Fellow of Leeds Trinity Establishing College, he has a nice interest in children's reading build up is widely known as unblended lively and entertaining speaker.

He is married with four grown-up children.

Gervase Phinn has a unique understanding advocate love of children, and dialect trig wonderful gift for storytelling ... a real star (Esther Rantzen)

Laugh-out-loud funny (Women's Weekly)

A colleague once said that Gervase's enthusiasm and encouragement

of team should be bottled ...

image outstanding practitioner (Guardian Education)

Gervase Phinn is one of influence most accomplished public speakers past it any kind. A natural prevaricator, he combines the timing be incumbent on the professional comedian with clear warmth and the ability repeat deliver a message that practical just more than just dialect trig series of jokes (The Epoch Educational Supplement)

A born relater (Guardian)

Funny, touching and delightful (The Daily Express)

Gentle playing field warm with a wry mother wit of humour (The Yorkshire Post)

He tells a cracking positive tale!

(The Times)

One disregard Britain's best loved comic writers ... he writes with enormous warmth and wit His books are uproarious and touching contempt turns (The Daily Mail)