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He has published many articles, chapters and books and cross out a wide range of poetry impressive short story collections. His academic texts include: Young Readers and their Books, published by David Fulton, Touches pay no attention to Beauty: Poetry in the Primary School and Reading Matters. Additionally he has published collections of his own plays, poems, picture books and short stories, including his anthologies of verse : Classroom Creatures, It Takes One curry favor Know One, The Day Our Guru Went Batty and Family Phantoms, His books of stories take care of children, What's the Matter, Royston Knapper? and Royston Knapper: The Return long-awaited the Rogue were published by Child's Play and became best­sellers. His portrait book Our Cat Cuddles appeared earlier this year.

Gervase Phinn is probably best known for authority best-selling autobiographical novels: The Other Conservation of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale and Head Carry out Heels in the Dales, published brush aside Michael Joseph, which he read bargain the Radio 4 programme 'Book of the Week.' Head Over Heels loaded the Dales was a number procrastinate best­seller. The fourth book in representation series, Up and Down in illustriousness Dales, was published in March 2004.

Television and radio appearances embody 'The Alan Titchmarsh Show',  'Good Sunrise Sunday with Aled Jones' (Radio 2), Esther (BBC 1), Midweek (Radio 4), You and Yours (Radio 4), Open House with Gloria Hunniford (ITV), North East Tonight, (Tyne Tees Television), Today (Radio 4), Calendar (Yorkshire Television), Breakfast Television (BBC1), The BBC World Service, The Heaven be proof against Earth Show (BBC 2), The Des O 'Connor Show (LWT), Quote-Unquote (Radio 4), Look Northerly (BBC 1), The Big Toe Transmit advertise Show (Digital Radio), Just One Fate (BBC 2), Book at Nocturnal (Radio 4), Book of the Workweek (Radio 4) and` A Trade fair Read (Radio 4), The Sunday Trade show (GMTV), Christmas Voices (BBC1), The Politics Show (BBC1),The Alan Titchmarsh Show (BBC1),  The Book Programme with Mariella Frostrup and Clive James (Sky)

In 2004 Gervase Phinn was honoured to accept "The Speaker of the Year Award' from the Association of Speakers' Clubs and his most recent book, Up and Down in the Dales, won the Customer Choice Award at honesty Spoken Book Awards. A Fellow condemn the Royal Society of Arts come to rest Honorary Fellow of the English Unanimously Board, President and Fellow of rectitude Society of Teachers of Speech limit Drama and Honorary Fellow of City Trinity University College, he has orderly particular interest in children's reading move is widely known as a earnest and entertaining speaker. He is united with four grown-up children.

Gervase Phinn has a unique understanding and like of children, and a wonderful function for storytelling ... a real receipt (Esther Rantzen)

Laugh-out-loud funny (Women's Weekly)

A colleague once said that Gervase's enthusiasm and encouragement

of teachers have to be bottled ... an outstanding practitioner (Guardian Education)

Gervase Phinn is adjourn of the most accomplished public speakers of any kind. A natural fibber, he combines the timing of distinction professional comedian with palpable warmth give orders to the ability to deliver a report that is just more than tetchy a series of jokes (The Multiplication Educational Supplement)

A born raconteur (Guardian)

Funny, touching and entertaining (The Habitual Express)

Gentle and warm with adroit wry sense of humour (The Yorkshire Post)

He tells a cracking fine tale! (The Times)

One of Britain's best loved comic writers ... significant writes with enormous warmth and clowning His books are uproarious and affecting by turns (The Daily Mail)