Ann Pilling
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{{Use British English|date=December 2015}}{{Short description|English author and poet}}{{Infobox author
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|10|17|df=y}}
| nationality = English
| occupation = Author and poet
| pseudonym = Ann Cheetham
| awards = Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1986)
| birth_place = Warrington, England
| education = King's College London
}}
Ann Pilling (born 17 October 1944) is an English author and poet best known for young adult fiction. She has also written horror fiction under the pen name Ann Cheetham.{{cite book|title=The Writer's Directory 2012|year=2012|publisher=St. James Press|location=Detroit, Mich.|isbn=9781558628397|pages=1984|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX1863817236&v=2.1&u=nu_main&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w|edition=30th}}
For Henry's Leg, published by Viking Kestrel in 1985, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
Pilling was born in Warrington, Lancashire, and grew up in a house "groaning with books". She started writing poetry when she was eight. At twelve years old, she took herself to church because 'I had a strong sense of God'. Her religious faith is important to her but she more often chooses secular subjects. She studied English at King's College London and wrote a Master's thesis on C. S. Lewis., her first introduction to contemporary children's books.
Works
= Horror stories =
The first four books (Dark Powers series) were originally published as by Ann Cheetham.
- Black Harvest (1983)
- The Beggar's Curse (1984)
- The Witch of Lagg (1985)
- The Pit (1987)
- The Empty Frame (1997)
= Children's books =
- The Year of the Worm (1984)
- Henry's Leg (1985)
- The Friday Parcel (1986)
- No Guns No Oranges (1986)
- Our Best Stories (1986), eds. Pilling and A. Wood
- The Big Pink (1987)
- The Beast in the Basement (1988)
- Dustbin Charlie (1988)
- On the Lion's Side (1988)
- Stan (1988)
- The Big Biscuit (1989)
- The Jungle Sale (1989)
- Our Kid (1989)
- Getting Rid of Aunt Mildred (1990)
- The Donkey's Day Out (1990)
- Before I Go to Sleep: Bible Stories, Poems, and Prayers for Children, selected and retold, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton (London: Kingfisher, New York: Crown Publishers, Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1990); reissued 2000 as A Kingfisher Treasury of Bible Stories, Poems and Prayers for Bedtime {{OCLC|59564291}}
- The Boy with His Leg in the Air (1991)
- Vote for Baz (1992)
- Considering Helen (1993)
'Dustbin Charlie Cleans Up' (1994)
- The Kingfisher Children's Bible: Stories from the Old and New Testaments, retold, illus. Denton (2003); reissued 2003 as The Kingfisher Book of Bible Stories {{OCLC|53072371}}
- Realms of Gold: Myths and Legends from Around the World, retold, illus. Denton (1993); reissued 2003 as The Kingfisher Treasury of Myths and Legends {{OCLC|52470749}}
- The Baked Bean Kids (1993)
- Mother's Daily Scream (1995)
- The Life of Jesus (1996)
- Noah's Ark (1996)
- Amber's Secret (2000)
- Why Bear Has a Stumpy Tail and Other Creation Stories (2000)
- The Catnappers: The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (Collins, 2003), as by Ann Cheetham, illus. Clare Mackie {{OCLC|51107280}}
= Adult books =
- A Broken Path (1991)
- Considering Helen (1993)
= Poetry =
- 'Growing Pains' (2008, winner of Smith/Doorstop Pamphlet Competition)
- 'Home Field' (2008) Arrowhead Press
- 'The Dancing Sailors' ( 2011) Indigo Dreams Publishing
- 'Ground Cover' (2015) Indigo Dreams Publishing
- 'Ways of Speech' ( 2020) Shoestring Press
- In Flight' ( 2024 ) Mudfog Press
Awards ==
- 1986 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Henry's Leg.
Her 1988 children's books On the Lion's Side and Stan were shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
See also
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References
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[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090634/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize |date=27 March 2019 }}. guardian.co.uk 12 March 2001. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
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External links
- {{official website }}
- [http://www.puffin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000025563,00.html Ann Pilling] at publisher Puffin Books
- [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/ann-pilling/ Ann Pilling] at Fantastic Fiction
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- {{LCAuth|n88271628|Ann Pilling|12|ue}} (including 1 as Ann Cheetham)
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Category:English children's writers
Category:Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners