Gervase Phinn

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Gervase Phinn (born 27 December 1946 in Rotherham, Yorkshire) is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside.

He has published four volumes of autobiography, collections of poetry and a number of books about education. He has a particular interest in children's literature and literacy and is widely known as a lively and entertaining speaker.

He is married with four grown-up children.

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[edit] Career

Professor Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now:

[edit] Publications

He has published many articles, chapters and books and edited a wide range of poetry and short story collections.

His academic texts include:

  • Young Readers and their Books, published by David Fulton
  • Touches of Beauty: Poetry in the Primary School and Reading Matters

He has published collections of his own plays, poems, picture books and short stories, including his anthologies of verse:

  • Classroom Creatures
  • It Takes One to Know One
  • The Day Our Teacher Went Batty
  • Family Phantoms

Books of stories for children:

  • What's the Matter, Royston Knapper?
  • Royston Knapper: The Return of the Rogue
  • Our Cat Cuddles (a picture book)

[edit] Novels

Gervase Phinn is probably best known for his best-selling autobiographical novels, many of which he has read as talking books:

  • The Other Side of the Dale
  • Over Hill and Dale
  • Head Over Heels in the Dales
  • Up and Down in the Dales
  • A Wayne in a Manger

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[edit] Honours

In 2004 Gervase Phinn received "The Speaker of the Year Award" from the Association of Speakers' Clubs. His most recent book, Up and Down in the Dales, won the Customer Choice Award at the Spoken Book Awards.

In 2005 the highest academic award of Sheffield Hallam University, Doctor of the University (D.Univ.) was conferred upon him by the Chancellor, Professor Lord Robert Winston.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the English Speaking Board.

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