Chris d'Lacey
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Chris D'Lacey is a English writer who works at Leicester University. He is married with no children.
D'Lacey had no real plans to write children's fiction until one day a friend suggested he enter a competition to write a story for eight year olds.The written the story that eventually became D'Lacey's first book, A HOLE AT THE POLE. It didn't win the competition, but friends at Leicester Writer's Club persuaded D'Lacey to send it off to a publisher. It was accepted. Since then D'Lacey has written many book including:
A Hole at the Pole 7-9 Reed Yellow Banana Joanna Carey Sept 94, Juggling with Jeremy 5-6 Reed Blue Banana Gus Clarke June 96, Henry Spaloosh! 8-9 Scholastic Funny Philip Reeve April 98, Fly, Cherokee, Fly 10-12 Transworld Corgi None July 98, A Break in the Chain 7-9 Reed Yellow Banana Joanna Carey Sept 98, The TFL (Subbuteo) 9-11 Scholastic Sport Philip Reeve Oct 98, Riverside United 9-11 Transworld Corgi Mick Reid May 99, Lofty 7-9 Orchard Pet Pal Anna C. Leplar July 99, Bubble & Float 5-6 Scholastic Little Hippo Nick Sharratt Aug 99, From E To You (with Linda Newbery) 11-14 Scholastic None Apr 00, Dexter's Journey 4-6 Egmont blue banana David Roberts Apr 00, Scupper Hargreaves Football Genie! 9-11 Transworld Corgi Mick Reid Aug 00, The Fire Within 8+ Orchard Books None Sept 01, Pawnee Warrior 10+ Yearling Books None Feb 02, The Salt Pirates of Skegness 8+ Orchard Books None Apr 02, The Snail Patrol 9-11 Barn Owl Books Philip Reeve Oct 03, Icefire 8+ Orchard Books None Oct 03, The Prompter 6+ Random House Young Corgi Ella Okstad Nov 03, Horace Corgi Childrens June 04, Fire Star Ochard Books None November 05, The Eternal Fire Orchard Books None Not known ,
Plus short stories
Story Title Book Title Publisher Publication Date The Southfield Elves Nice One, Santa - a football anthology Scholastic Nov 98 , The Lift On me 'ead, Santa - a football anthology Scholastic Nov,
Dragon Books
D'Laceys most popular books are his ones on dragons. The Dragon saga begins with The Fire Within then goes to Icefire, Fire Star then a book coming out in Autumn 2007 named The Fire eternal. The books feature a young writer named David Rain. David Rain is a student, desperate to find lodgings. When he first moves in to Wayward Crescent with Mrs Pennykettle and her daughter, Lucy, all seems normal enough. True, the house is full of clay dragons, but Mrs Pennykettle makes them to sell, and there's nothing unusual in that.
But at Lucy's insistence, David quickly finds himself involved in a quest to save the life of an injured squirrel. A quest that will help him discover things he never knew about himself,
not to mention those ever-present dragons. David Rain is then challenged to prove that dragons really existed. As he tackles this quest, he begins to learn a lot more than he anticipated, not just about dragons but the history of polar bears and the Arctic itself.
When David travells to Chamberlain in the Artic he discovers more about Gwilanna, artic and the legend of Gaiwan and Guinevere. not to mention more about his girlfriend, suzanna (zanna for short)
Near the end of the book we find out that zanna is pregnent with David's baby
His new book the Fire Eternal seems to be coming in six months!
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