Dominic Barker

British children's author

Dominic Barker (born 1966) is a British children's author.

Biography

Dominic Barker was born in Southport in 1966. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in English and then spent two years as part of a comedy double act before deciding to become a teacher. He taught at various schools including The Commonweal School, Swindon.

He currently lives in Barcelona, where he blogs on the city at bigbarcelonablog.blogspot.com and on random other stuff at dominicbarker.blogspot.com.

Bibliography

Mickey Sharp series:
- Sharp Stuff (1999)
- Sharp Shot (2001)
- Sharp Returns (2003)
- Sharp Beats (2008)
Blart series:
- Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World (2006)
- Blart II: The Boy Who was Wanted Dead or Alive - Or Both (2007)
- Blart III: The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest (2008)
Adam and the Arkonaughts (2010)
Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble(2011)
- Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Catch a Criminal (2011)
- Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Be a Genius (2011)
- Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Build an Abominable Snowman (2012)
- Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Stop a Viking Invasion (summer 2012)

Awards and nominations

2000 Sharp Stuff shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award^[1]
2007 Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World won the Stockton Children's Book of the Year^[2]
2011 Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Catch a Criminal included in the Richard and Judy's Children's Book Club^[3]

References

^ Branford Boase Award
^ "'Oscars' for children's books". The Northern Echo. 2 March 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2008. ^{[dead link]}
^ Richard & Judy#Children's Book Club

External links

Author profile at Bloomsbury.com
Dominic Barker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Barker's website: www.dominicbarker.com
Barker's Barcelona Blog: An outsider's inside view: http://bigbarcelonablog.blogspot.com
Barker's random blog: http://dominicbarker.blogspot.com