TV
THE WILD HOUSE (series 1-3) BBC Children’s Drama, writer of 3 episodes, monologues and dialogues for further 21 episodes, 1996-9
MICROSOAP (series 1 & 2) Disney /BBC Children’s Drama co-production, creator and writer of 12 out of 25 episodes, 1998-1999
STARSTREET (series 2) children’s TV series, Carlton, writer of 2 episodes, 2001
FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN (screenplay adapted from Raymond Briggs’ book) directed by Stuart Orme, starring Fay Ripley and Martin Clunes, BBCTV / Indie Kids, Christmas 2004
1,000 SHIPS Radio 4 Afternoon Play, January 2002
COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN Radio 4 Afternoon Play, March 2003
TV / RADIO AWARDS
ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY Best Children’s drama for Microsoap 1999
BAFTA Best Children’s Drama for Microsoap 1999
BAFTA Special Screenwriter’s Award for contribution to children’s television 1999
NEW YORK TV FESTIVALGold Award for MICROSOAP 1999
BROADCAST AWARD Best Children’s Programme for Microsoap 2000
PRIX JEUNESSE Munich, for MICROSOAP 2000
SONY AWARDS Bronze Award for COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN 2004
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
GILBERT'S GOBSTOPPER (author & illustrator) Hamish Hamilton 1987, also published in US (Dial) & Denmark
A NARROW ESCAPE FOR PRINCESS SHARON (author & illustrator), Hamish Hamilton 1989
TONI AND THE TOMATO SOUP (author & illustrator) Hamish Hamilton 1989, also published in US (Harcourt Brace), Denmark, Holland & Japan
TITCH JOHNSON - ALMOST WORLD CHAMPION (illustrated by Martin Brown) Walker Books, 1993
AGENT Z MEETS THE MASKED CRUSADER (author & illustrator) Bodley Head, 1993, Chivers audio cassette 1983
AGENT Z GOES WILD (author & illustrator) Bodley Head1994
GRIDZBI SPUDVETCH Walker Books 1993
THE REAL PORKY PHILIPS (fiction 5-9, b/w illustrations - author & illustrator) A & C Black 1994, also published in Italy (Edizioni Sonda), Feature film rights bought by Disney, 2000
BABY DINOSAURS: AT HOME / … IN THE GARDEN / … AT PLAYGROUP / … ON HOLIDAY (author & illustrator) Transworld 1994, also published in US (Writers & Artists Guild)
AGENT Z AND THE PENGUIN FROM MARS (author & illustrator) Bodley Head 1995, Dramatised on BBC 1, 1996
THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY (illustrated by Christian Birmingham) HarperCollins 1995, also published in US (Harcourt Brace), Denmark, West Germany & Japan
AGENT Z AND THE INVASION OF THE KILLER BANANAS (author & illustrator) Bodley Head, Feb 2001
THE OCEAN STAR EXPRESS (illustrated by Peter Sutton) HarperCollins, November 2001, also published in Denmark (Forlaget Klematis)
THE ICE BEAR’S CAVE (illustrated by David Axtell) HarperCollins 2002
FICTION
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Jonathan Cape and David Fickling, May 2003, also published in the US (Doubleday), Germany (Karl Blessing), France (Laffont & Pocket Jeunesse), Italy (Einaudi), Holland (Contact), Finland (Otava), Sweden (Wahlstrom & Widstrand), Norway (Pax), Greece (Psichogios), Spain (Salamandra), Denmark (Rosinante), Japan (Hayakawa), Brazil (Record), Israel (Kinneret-Zmora Bitan-Dvir), Taiwan (Locus Publishing), Korea (Little Books / Moonhak), Thailand (Nation Books), Poland (Bertelsmann Media), Czech Republic (Argo), Yugoslavia (Alfa-Narodna Knjiga), Portugal (Presença), Catalan (RBA), Croatia (Izvori), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Thailand (Nation Books), Estonia (Varrak), Hungary (Europa), Slovakia (Ikar), Turkey (kultur Yayinlari) Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga), Russia (Rosman Publishing), Mainland China (Hunan Publishing Group), Romania (Editora Trei), Latvia (Janis Roze), Bulgaria (Uniscorp), Indonesia (KPG Publishing) and Iceland (Edda)
Film rights have been sold to Warner Brothers / Heyday Films / Plan B Productions, with Steve Kloves contracted to write and direct.
AWARDS FOR CURIOUS INCIDENT
GUARDIAN CHILDREN’S FICTION PRIZE 2003
BOOKTRUST TEENAGE PRIZE 2003
SPOKEN WORD AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR 2003
WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2004
SOUTH BANK SHOW LITERATURE AWARD 2004
COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE Best First Book Award 2004
SILVER KISS (Holland) 2004
LA TIMES FIRST FICTION AWARD 2004
YALSA ALEX AWARD (USA) 2004
WH SMITH CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2004
WATERSTONE’S LITERARY FICTION AWARD 2004
GRAND PRIX, SANKEI CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS (Japan) 2004
MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2004
PREMIO SERONO (Italy) 2004
PREMIO BOCCACCIO (Italy) 2004
WAVERTON GOOD READ AWARD 2004
DOLLY GRAY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD (USA) 2004
POETRY
THE TALKING HORSE AND THE SAD GIRL AND THE VILLAGE UNDER THE SEA Picador 2005
I have worked as a cartoonist for (among others) The New Statesman, The Spectator, Private Eye, The Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian for whom I co-wrote a cartoon-strip, MEN - A USER’S GUIDE, with Clara Vulliamy, which was published on the Guardian Women page
Every now and then I teach Creative Writing for The Arvon Foundation