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Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?
A cowboy actor.
Q: What is your favourite word?
Nonsense!
Q: What makes you cringe?
Celebrities who write children's books!
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
Last week with Ian Hislop on "Have I Got News For You".
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
A poetry book which my mother won as a school prize in the 1930's.
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
Listen to music. I love everything from Chopin to "I've got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts".
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Strawberries and ice cream.
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
I'd love to be a songwriter, but have little musical talent.
Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Edward Lear. By all accounts a nice chap!
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Humility
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
I've just come back from Hay-on-Wye which was fun. A secondhand bookshop on every corner!
Q: What has life taught you?
Live and let live.
Q: How long have you been a writer?
My first book contained poems I wrote when I was 21 which was in 1972, so I suppose that's when I started writing professionally.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
It starts off, as in must, in my head. I could be anywhere.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
Spike Milligan said he liked writing because it's a job you can do lying down, and I agree!
Q: Which of your own characters do you most identify with?
Mouse in "Moose and Mouse". He's happy to stay indoors all day writing silly poems!
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
I had an Odhams encyclopaedia which I loved for all its illustrations.I still have it, but it's falling apart over half a century later.
Q: What book do you wish you had written?
Walter de la Mare's lesser known book "Stuff and Nonsense". He used all his skill, charm and wit to write wonderful nonsense verse in it.
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Moose and Mouse
Published By
Kingfisher
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The Best of West
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A Step in the Wrong Direction
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Out of Print -
The Weightlifter's Laughter
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Coming Soon -
The Height of Absurdity
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Out of Print -
Monty Must be Magic!
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A Crocodile's Teeth
Published By
Walker
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Fighting Dragons
Published By
Walker
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"I Don't Care!" Said the Bear
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Have You Seen the Crocodile?
Published By
Walker
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It's Funny When You Look at It
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Uncle Tom's Pterodactyl
Published By
A & C Black
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Uncle-and-Auntie Pat
Published By
A & C Black
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Not to be Taken Seriously
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Long Tales, Short Tales and Tall Tales
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One Day in the Jungle
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Out of Print -
Toby and his Old Tin Tub
Published By
A & C Black
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Percy the Pink
Published By
Walker
Status
In Print
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