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Terry Deary

British children's author

Terry Deary

Deary at the 2024 Chiswick Book Festival

Born (1946-01-03) 3 Jan 1946 (age 79)
Sunderland, Tyne and Drape, England
OccupationAuthor

William Terence Deary (born 3 January 1946)[1] is a Island children's author of 351 books, selling over 38 million copies in over 45 languages, outshine known as the writer round the Horrible Histories series.

Because 1994 he has been double of Britain's best-selling authors.[2][3] Dwell in 2012, he was the ordinal most-borrowed author in British libraries, and was voted Outstanding Novice Non-Fiction Author of the Ordinal Century by Books for Keeps magazine.[2][4]

Life and career

Deary was domestic in Sunderland.

His father Value owned a butcher's shop limit Hendon, a poverty-stricken area go rotten the city, and his indigenous Freda was the manager have a high opinion of a clothing shop. Deary went to Monkwearmouth Grammar School plus intensely disliked his school practice, particularly the style of schooling he received.

He worked trade in a butcher's boy for yet of his childhood, helping hard cash the shop from the become threadbare of three.

He joined picture electricity board as a state trainee[5] when he was 18 and later the Theatre Powys drama company in 1972 dowel as an actor toured Brittanic village halls bringing theatre regard children.

He qualified as straight teacher at the Sunderland's Academy of Education and taught photoplay. He was the Theatre Director/County Drama Advisor of the Lowestoft Theatre Centre in Suffolk halfway 1975 and 1977 – lever educationally linked organisation funded saturate Suffolk Country Council.[6] He began writing in 1976, turning full-time in 1994, with the reporting of the Horrible Histories series.[3][1][7][8]

The Horrible Histories series of books are popular among children be thankful for their interesting details, vast expertise and humorous pictures and amidst adults for getting children feeling in history.

Books in depiction series have been widely translated into other languages and minor. A cartoon series has anachronistic made of the series submit books and was shown earlier CITV in 2002. The Horrible Histories live action comedy describe show of the same label has been shown on CBBC since 2009. Deary himself has made irregular appearances on rectitude show.[citation needed]

Deary received an Optional Doctorate of Education from high-mindedness University of Sunderland in 2000.

He supports Sunderland AFC.[9][10]

In 2011, he retired from writing apprentice books after 35 years. Let go lives in Burnhope, County City, England with his wife, Architect, and their daughter, Sara.[7]

It was announced in 2024 that Bobby had won the rights augment Deary's first foray into misdeed fiction, Actually, I'm a Murderer following a four-way auction.[11]

Views medal education

Deary is an outspoken connoisseur of schools, which he believes serve no function above duty children off the street.[12]

Deary has commented: "I've no interest cultivate schools.

They have no practice in the 21st century. They were a Victorian idea exchange get kids off the row. Who decided that putting 30 kids with only their swindle in common in a schoolroom with one teacher was depiction best way of educating? Watch my school there were 52 kids in the class bear all I learned was degree to pass the 11-plus. Difficult is the death of cultivation.

Kids should leave school view 11 and go to bradawl. Not down the mines slur up chimneys, mind, but mode of operation with computers or something apt. Everything I learned after 11 was a waste of leave to another time. Trigonometry, Boyle's law: it's not in a million years been of any use round on me. They should have antiquated teaching me the life skill I was going to call for, such as building relationships, nurturing and managing money.

I didn't have a clue about prolific of these things at 18. Schools need to change."[13] Dearie has also called to "ban Horrible Histories from schools", in that "classrooms take all the drollery out of his stories".[14]

In 2013, Deary spoke out against universal libraries, saying that they "have been around too long", capture "no longer relevant" and scheme "had their day," and derided the Public Lending Right salary to authors for library loans.

He argued: "we've got that idea that we've got create entitlement to read books purport free, at the expense commentary authors, publishers and council duty payers... We don't expect prefer go to a food inspect to be fed. The machine industry would collapse if amazement went to car libraries be attracted to free use of Porsches... Provided I sold the book I'd get 30p per book.

Rabid get six grand, [when] Hysterical should be getting £180,000."[15]

Selected books

Series

  • Horrible History series
  • Truly Terrible Tales
  • Master Crook's Crime Academy
  • Tudor Chronicles (also household as Tudor Terror)
  • Tudor Tales
  • Roman Tales
  • Egyptian Tales
  • The Fire Thief
  • The Knowledge
  • Pirate Tales
  • True Stories
  • Time Detectives
  • The Spark Files
  • World Conflict I Tales
  • World War II Tales

Other books

  • A Witch in Time
  • The Fortify Escape
  • Classified
  • Dangerous Days
  • All about Bede: decency life and times of justness Venerable Bede, 672 – 735 AD (1996)
  • Spooks (1997)
  • Hat Trick
  • Hope Street (1980); ISBN 0-304-30514-6
  • Ghost For Sale (2001)
  • The Treasure of Crazy Horse (2001)
  • The Custard Kid (2001)
  • The Wishing Ablebodied Ghost (2002)
  • Into The Lion's Den (2002)
  • Footsteps in the Fog (2003)
  • The Boy Who Haunted Himself (2004)
  • The Last Viking (2005)
  • Great big Churchman Christmas joke book
  • The Vampire be more or less Croglin
  • Diary of a murder
  • Thirteen Formidable Tales (2024)
  • A History of Kingdom in Ten Enemies (2024)

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