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GERVASE PHINN |
| Professor Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for 14 years before becoming an education advisor & school inspector. He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster & writer, a consultant for the Open University, Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, York & the Fellow & Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside. |
| Gervase has published many articles, chapters & books, edited a wide range of poetry & short story collections. His academic texts include: Young Readers & Their Books, Touches of Beauty - Poetry in Primary School & Reading Matters. Additionally, he has published collections of his own plays, poems, picture books & short stories including his anthologies of verse: Classroom Creatures, It Takes One to Know One, The Day Our Teacher Went Batty? & Family Phantoms. His books of stories for children, What's the Matter Royston Knapper? & Royston Knapper: The Return of the Rogue were published by Child's Play & became best sellers. |
| Gervase is probably best known for his three best selling autobiographical novels: The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill & Dale, Head Over Heels in the Dales (which he read on Radio 4 programme Book of the Week), Up & Down in the Dales & The Heart of the Dales. |
| Television & radio appearances include Esther, Midweek, You & Yours, Open House with Gloria Hunniford, North East Tonight, Today, Calendar, Breakfast Television, BBC World Service, The Heaven & Earth Show, The Des O'Connor Show, Quote-Unquote, The Big Toe Radio Show, Just One Chance, Book at Bedtime, Book of the Week & A Good Read. |
| A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he has a particular interest in children's reading & is widely known as a lively & entertaining speaker. |
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