Rachel Anderson

Rachel Anderson (born 1943) is an English journalist and author best known for her children's books. Her work often features the positive portrayal of characters with learning disabilities, and themes of social injustice and alienation.[1] She was married for 45 years to the writer and translator David Bradby.[2] Her mother was the writer Verily Anderson.

For the novel Paper Faces, published by Oxford in 1991, Anderson won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.[3]

Biography

Born in 1943, Rachel Anderson is the second of the five children born to Verily Anderson and Captain Donald Clive Anderson.

Leaving school at the age of 16, Rachel Anderson initially became a journalist, working for BBC Radio, newspapers and women's magazines.[2] For 10 years she was children's book reviews editor for Good Housekeeping.[2][4] Her first book – Pineapple, an adult novel – was published in 1965, in the same week that she and David Bradby were married.[2] She now writes mainly for a young readership.[2]

She has four children and "a range of grandchildren"[2] and lives mainly in Cromer, Norfolk.[5][2]

Works

Children's and young adult books

  • Moffatt's Road (1978)
  • Tim Walks (1985)
  • Jessy Runs Away (1988)
  • French Lessons (1988)
  • Tough as Old Boots (1988)
  • The Bus People (1989)
  • Julie and the Queen of Tonga 1990
  • Best Friends (1991)
  • Treasures for Cousin Crystal (1992)
  • The Working Class (1993)
  • Jessy and the Long-short Dress (1993)
  • Black Water (1994)
  • The Doll's House (1995)
  • Princess Jazz and the Angels (1995)
  • Letters from Heaven (1996)
  • Blackthorn, Whitethorn (1997)
  • Carly's Luck (1998)
  • Ollie and the Trainers (1999)
  • The Scavenger's Tale (2000)
  • The War Orphan (2000)
  • The Flight of the Emu (2001)
  • Joe's Story (2001)
  • Paper Faces (2002)
  • The Rattletrap Trip (2003)
  • Hello Peanut! (2003)
  • Hugo and the Long Red Arm (2004)
  • Pizza on Saturday (2004)
  • The Poacher's Son (2006)
  • Warlands (2006)
  • This Strange New Life (2006)
  • Red Moon (2006)
  • Big Ben (2007)

The Little Angel Trilogy:

  • Little Angel Comes to Stay (1984)
  • Little Angel, Bonjour (1988)
  • Happy Christmas Little Angel (1991)

Moving Times' Trilogy:

  • Bloom of Youth (1999)
  • Grandmother's Footsteps (1999)
  • Stronger than Mountains (2000)

Adult books

  • Pineapple (Jonathan Cape, 1965)
  • Dream Lovers (1978)
  • For the Love of Sang (1990)

Literary criticism

  • The Purple Heart Throbs, the sub-literature of love (1974)

Translations

  • The Cat's Tale (1985)
  • Renard the Fox (1986) with D. Bradby
  • Wild Goose Chase (1986)
  • Little Lost Fox (1992)

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Rachel Anderson". The Viney Agency. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Biography at Rachel Anderson official website. Archived 18 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 1 2 "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners". theguardian 12 March 2001. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Rachel Anderson", British Council, Literature.
  5. ↑ "Rachel Anderson - Author", LoveReading4Kinds.


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