Author Here's our chat with Timothy. -Do you have a favourite kids books you have done? It’s a very good question, one that I’m often asked when I go into schools to read my stories, and I’m not going to answer it - quite. That’s because my favourite book of mine is the next one, the one I haven’t written yet. It’s so full of potential - it could be the best book anyone anywhere has ever written (well, it could be) - that I really want to find out about it. That’s why I keep on writing, because I want to know what my next book is all about, and because I hope that one day I will write the perfect book. I won’t, of course, but this particular journey is not about the destination, it’s about the travelling. How many books have you done? I’m sorry to say I’ve lost track, but it’s more than sixty, which is quite a lot! What inspires you to write? It’s partly what I said in answer to the first question - I want to find out what my next book is about, so I have to write it - and it’s partly the joy I have always derived from stories, both reading them and writing them. The idea that you can go anywhere and do anything in a book is just too exciting to leave alone for very long. Did you write stories as a child? I did write stories as a child, both in class and in my own time. I remember my friends and I at primary school had our own comic book (I also remember that their stories were better than mine!). That’s another thing I tell kids at schools when they ask me when did I start being a writer. The answer is, I started at the same age they did, and in the same way they did - in class, being asked by a teacher to write a story. I just kept on doing it when all of the other people in that class (including my friends I did the comic with) gave it up to do other things. So if those kids want to do what I do now, if they want to become writers, they just need to keep writing. What is your favourite food? Chocolate brownies! If you could be anything you wanted to be, what would it be? I’m being it now. And, being a writer, I can be anything I want to be just by writing about it. What do you do on weekends for fun? I read, I go to the cinema and I go to the theatre (I also co-write musicals, which is another passion of mine) and I like to travel too. Where is your favourite place to go? I do like to travel and at the moment my favourite place is a tie between Rome and Florence. Do you visit a local bookshop regularly? I do - the Regency Bookshop in Surbiton and the Alligator’s Mouth in Richmond. They are both fantastic! Any new up coming titles coming out soon, that we should be looking out for? I’ve just published Captain Sparklebeard (illustrated by Sam Lloyd), about a girl who wants to be a pirate, and What’s Next? (Illustrated by Jane McGuinness), about a baby badger who likes exploring, and in June I’ll be publishing Harry In A Hurry, with illustrations by Gemma Merino, whose book The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water is a big favourite of mine. Also on the way are a new book in the Superhero Parents series, Superhero Gran (illustrated by Joe Berger), and a sequel to the hilariously disgusting (or disgustingly hilarious) Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bogey (illustrated by Tom Knight). Thanks for chatting to me, great answers! More information. www.timothyknapman.co.uk Books here. Instagram @timothymknapman Facebook @Timothy-Knapman-Childrens-Writer-Lyricist-Playwright You can find books also at: www.booktopia.com.au www.bookdepository.com www.amazon.co.uk www.amazon.com.au www.dymocks.com.au www.angusrobertson.com.au www.fishpond.com.au www.collinsbooks.com.au www.betterworldbooks.com www.wordery.com www.thenile.com.au
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