ANDY SEED
Andy Seed worked for many years as a primary school teacher in the Yorkshire Dales amongst other places before setting up as a freelance writer in 2000. His output since then has been hugely varied, encompassing books for teachers, children’s poetry, non-fiction, radio comedy sketches, comic greetings cards, copy for charities and government agencies involved in education, and web-based learning games.
In 2008 Andy’s humorous miscellany How to Spot a Hadrosaur in a Bus Queue was chosen by the School Library Association as one of the top 100 books to encourage boys to read. He now splits his work time between writing and travelling around schools as a performance poet running workshops and enthusing children about books and reading. Andy has written over a dozen books for children, a selection of which are listed below. Please refer to his website for his full bibliography.
Andy is married with three children and lives in the wilds of North Yorkshire where he finds inspiration while battling against the overgrowth of his vast, rambling garden. He loves telling stories and maintains a choice collection from his days in the Dales.
His humorous memoirs about teaching in the Yorkshire Dales, starting with ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL, was sold to Headline on a pre-empt, following huge interest from publishers. The first book was published in 2011, ALL TEACHERS WISE AND WONDERFUL, the follow-up, will be published in 2012, with a third title in 2013.
For more information visit www.andyseed.com
LATEST BOOK: ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL
"...heartwarming, hilarious...an enchanting memoir" - Daily Mail
Twenty-five years ago, newly qualified teacher, Andy Seed, moved to a remote village in the Yorkshire Dales with his wife Barbara, anticipating breathtaking views and the gentle simplicity of the countryside.
The picturesque scenery did not disappoint. But life as a primary school teacher was anything but simple. With a classroom full of colourful characters whose capacity for misunderstanding was exceeded only by their enthusiasm and their ability to leave him incredulous, Andy fell in love with teaching and with village life.
All Teachers Creat and Small tells the true story of Andy’s first year at Cragthwaite Primary School – how he bravely negotiated the vagaries of the local dialect, made disastrous bids to provide a family home, naively and hilariously tried out new-fangled ideas in a school stuck in a 1950s time warp, and ultimately discovered a little part of England he was proud to call home.
Warm, touching and very funny, All Teachers Great and Small transports you to a time that may be gone but has never been forgotten.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: All Teacher’s Great and Small, Headline, 2011; Razzle Dazzle; Hands Up Books 2010, You Can Do It series; Hodder Children’s Books 2010, The Real Me; Piccadilly Press, 2007 (written under pen name Amy Simon), How to Spot a Hadrosaur in a Bus Queue; Hodder Children’s Books, 2004.
