ALAN MACDONALD
Alan MacDonald was born in Watford and now lives a stone’s throw from the River Trent in Nottingham. He is married with three children.
After several years acting and directing in a travelling theatre company, he turned full time to writing in 1990 since when he has published over sixty books for children.
He is best known for his humorous fiction for the seven to ten age group. Recent successful series include the Dirty Bertie books (with creator and illustrator, David Roberts) for Stripes, which have sold all over the world, Iggy The Urk andTroll Trouble for Bloomsbury (optioned for film and sold in nine different territories) and he is currently working on a new series for Bloomsbury about a gang of highly irregular child superheroes.
When not busy with books, Alan writes scripts for children’s TV, working on many popular series such as Horrid Henry, The Tweenies, Boo! and Fimbles.
Alan Macdonald and David Roberts’ DIRTY BERTIE book Loo is winner of the Leicestershire Children’s Book Prize 2011.
LATEST BOOK: DIRTY BERTIE SNOW! (Illustrated by DAVID ROBERTS)
Beware! Bertie’s revolting habits could rub off on YOU!
Meet Dirty Bertie – a boy with nose-pickingly DISGUSTING HABITS! He’s full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it’s TROUBLE you’re after, look no further – Bertie’s sure to be up to his neck in it!
Three wickedly funny stories featuring the world’s grubbiest trouble magnet: Snow! Battle! and Record!
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Alan Macdonald has written over thirty books for children, the latest of which are listed here.Booom!, Bloomsbury, 2011, Eughhh! Eyeball Stew, Bloomsbury, 2011, Arrrgh! Slimosaur, Bloomsbury, 2011, Oi, Caveboy, Bloomsbury, 2010, , Dirty Bertie - Snow! , Stripes Publishing, 2011, Dirty Bertie - Ouch! , Stripes Publishing, 2011, Dirty Bertie - Kiss! , Stripes Publishing, 2011,Dirty Bertie - Loo! , Stripes Publishing, 2010, Dirty Bertie - Mud!, Stripes Publishing, 2009, Dirty Bertie Germs!, Stripes Publishing, 2009, Foreign rights licensed across various titles include the following publishers (please enquire with UK publishers for more details): French (Gallimard), German (Klett-Kinderbuch), Spanish (Random House Mondadori), Serbian (Mladinska Knjiga), Turkish (Altin Kitaplar), Hebrew (Agam), Korean (Joongang), Slovenian (Avora As) Welsh (Gwasg Gomer) Portuguese (V&R Editoras), Trolls Go Home! Bloomsbury, 2007,
Trolls on Hols, Bloomsbury, 2007, Goat Pie, Bloomsbury, 2007,
Foreign Rights: Germany, USA (both Bloomsbury), France (Gallimard) Italy (EDT), Greece (Kedros), Israel (Sofer Lakol), Romania (RAO), Slovenia (Zalozba) and Brazil (DCL), Oi Caveboy! Bloomsbury, 2010, The Sign of the Angel, Scholastic, 2005, Triffic Chocolate, Scholastic, 2000, Henry 8th and his Chopping Block, Scholastic, 1999
