Description
Tyke Tiler is very fond of jokes, that's why there are so many in this story. Tyke is also fond of Danny Price, who is not too bright and depends a lot on his friend. Together Tyke and Danny are double trouble.
About the Author
Gene Kemp was an English author known for children's books. Her first,The Pride of Tamworth Pig, appeared in 1972. She won the British Carnegie Medal for her school novelThe Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler(1977).Gene Kemp was born in Wigginton, Staffordshire in 1926. She grew up near Tamworth, Staffordshire, and went to Exeter University. She became a teacher and taught at St Sidwell's School in Exeter in the 1970s.From 1972 she wrote stories for young readers about a pig named Tamworth, named after the town she grew up in. Kemp found inspiration for many of the characters in her books amongst the friends of her children, Chantal and Richard.Her best known book isThe Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, published by Faber's Children's Books in 1977. Set in the fictional Cricklepit School, it charts the pleasures and pains of friendship and growing up. There are several Cricklepit books, includingSnaggletooth's Mystery, an alternative history of the school, andGowie Corby Plays Chicken, set one year afterThe Turbulent Term of Tyke Tilerand referencing Tyke in several chapters.Kemp wrote ghost stories and fantasy as well as realistic fiction, likeSeriously Weird, which is told from the perspective of the sister of a young man with Asperger syndrome. She also dramatised some of her work, the most successful and well-known of these beingCharlie Lewis Plays for Time, another Cricklepit story.Gene Kemp was awarded an Honorary MA from Exeter University in 1984. She lived in Exeter and had three children – a daughter, Judith, from her first marriage to Norman Pattison, which ended in divorce, and another daughter, Chantal, and a son, Richard, from her second marriage, to Allan Kemp, who died in 1990. She had three grandchildren and two great-grandsons. Kemp died at the age of 88 on 4 January 2015.Kemp won two awards forThe Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler(1997): the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, for the year's best children's book by a British subject, and one from the Children's Rights Workshop.She made the Smarties Prize shortlist four times, in (1981) forThe Clock Tower Ghost, (1985) forCharlie Lewis Plays for Time, (1986) forJuniperand (1990) forJust Ferret.
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