Many, many years ago, I read Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising. During the summer they run a residential school of art, and she has to move her office, put down tools (type-writer and pencil, and don an apron and cook! They have three grown-up children, Myfawny, Ianto, and Gwenwyfar. They live in a very old converted watermill, and the river is constantly threatening to break in, as it has done several times in the past, most dramatically on her youngest child's first birthday.

She left BBC to marry a Welsh artist David Wynn Millward and went to live in Wales in her husband's family home. On her return, she joined the BBC, first as a picture researcher, then as an assistant floor manager, studio manager (news) then finally a director/adaptor with Jackanory (a BBC storytelling program for children). She left Britain to teach English to three Italian boys in Almafi, Italy. She graduated and acted in repertory theater in various towns and cities: Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Hastings, and Bexhill. She has also written books for younger children including the stories about Delilah, Delilah and the Dogspell (1991), Delilah and the Dishwasher Dogs (1993) and Delilah Alone (1995).Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England and educated at boarding schools in Kent and Surrey from the age of six until the age of sixteen, when she ran away from school to become a drama student/assistant stage manager with Theater South East. In October 2019 it was announced that there is to be a new five-part drama, to be broadcast on CBBC and BBC Wales in 2020.Īnother well-known series by Jenny Nimmo is the Children of the Red King series (or the Charlie Bone series), the first of which is called Midnight for Charlie Bone (2002). It and the other books in the trilogy were adapted for television and the programmes were shown between 19.

The Snow Spider won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize and also the Welsh Tir na n-Og award. Before writing full-time, Jenny Nimmo (1944 - ) worked in the theatre and for the BBC, on a children’s television programme all about stories called Jackanory. This book was inspired by Welsh myths and legends. Three beautifully told stories full of magic and myth and ancient folklore She tells him it is time to find out if he is a magician, like his ancestors. On Gwyn’s ninth birthday his grandmother gives him five gifts: a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle, a twisted metal brooch and a small, broken horse. Life has been hard for Gwyn and his family since his sister went missing.

The snow spider by jenny nimmo