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, attracted huge interest from several publishers before going to Headline with a pre-empt for three books.
For more information visit www.andyseed.com
LATEST BOOK: ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL
Think back twenty-five years. Life was simpler then. And in the Yorkshire Dales, where newly-qualified teacher, Andy Seed, and his young wife, arrived one beautiful summer’s day, it might as well have been the fifties.
All Teachers Great and Small tells the true story of Andy’s first year teaching at Cragthwaite Primary School. It shares tales of the extraordinary characters he meets – not least the twenty-four children in his class – his hilarious attempts at progressive education and his disastrous bids to find a family home.
Warm-hearted, funny and touching, All Teachers Great and Small is perfect holiday reading for fans of James Herriot, Miss Read, Gervase Phinn and Jack Sheffield; and lovers of all things English, nostalgic and good.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: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.
