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He has published
many articles, chapters and books and edited a wide range of
poetry and short story collections. His academic texts
include: Young Readers and their Books, published by
David Fulton, Touches of 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 to Know One,
The Day Our Teacher Went Batty and
Family Phantoms,
His books of stories for children, What's the Matter,
Royston Knapper? and Royston Knapper: The Return of
the Rogue were published by Child's Play and became
bestsellers. His picture book Our Cat Cuddles
appeared earlier this year.
Gervase Phinn is probably best
known for his best-selling autobiographical novels: The
Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill
and Dale
and Head Over Heels in the Dales, published by
Michael Joseph, which he read on the Radio 4 programme 'Book
of the Week.' Head Over Heels in the Dales was a
number one bestseller.
The fourth book in the series, Up and Down in the Dales,
was published in March 2004.
Television and radio appearances include 'The Alan
Titchmarsh Show', 'Good Morning 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 and Earth Show
(BBC 2), The Des O 'Connor Show (LWT),
Quote-Unquote
(Radio 4), Look North (BBC 1), The Big Toe Radio
Show (Digital Radio), Just One Chance (BBC 2),
Book at Bedtime (Radio 4), Book of the Week
(Radio 4) and` A Good Read (Radio 4),
The Sunday Programme (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 receive "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 the Spoken
Book Awards. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and
Honorary Fellow
of the English Speaking Board, President and Fellow of the Society of
Teachers of Speech and Drama and Honorary Fellow of Leeds
Trinity University College, he has a particular interest
in children's reading and is widely
known as a lively and entertaining speaker. He is married
with four grown-up children.
Gervase Phinn has a unique understanding and love of
children,
and a wonderful gift for storytelling ... a real star
(Esther Rantzen)
Laugh-out-loud funny (Women's Weekly)
A colleague once said that Gervase's enthusiasm and
encouragement
of teachers should be bottled ... an outstanding
practitioner (Guardian Education)
Gervase Phinn is one of the most accomplished public
speakers of any kind. A natural storyteller, he combines the
timing of the professional comedian with palpable warmth and
the ability to
deliver a message that is just more than just a series of
jokes
(The Times Educational Supplement)
A born raconteur (Guardian)
Funny, touching and entertaining (The Daily Express)
Gentle and warm with a wry sense of humour (The Yorkshire
Post)
He tells a cracking good tale! (The Times)
One of Britain's best loved comic writers ... he writes with
enormous warmth and wit
His books are uproarious and touching by turns (The Daily
Mail)
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