Dee Shulman (born 1957) is a British author and illustrator of novels for children and young adults.

Biography

Dee Shulman was born in

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, and studied English at

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and illustration at

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. Her first book, ''Feminist Graffiti'', was published while she was studying at Harrow. After finishing art school, she worked as a storyboard artist and

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illustrator on magazines and books. Her first children’s picture book, ''One Day Janie'' (published by

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) was inspired by her 2-year-old daughter. Since then, she has written and/or illustrated over 50 books for children, and has been shortlisted for the ''FCB award'', and longlisted for the ''Waterstones Children’s Book Prize''. In 2008, the first Polly Price book was published – ''My Totally Secret Diary: On Stage in America'', and was followed two years later by ''My Totally Secret Diary: Reality TV Nightmare''. The 3rd book in the series, ''Polly Price’s Totally Secret Diary: Mum in Love'' was published in August 2012. The 4th is due for publication in 2014. Her most widely held book is ''Hetty and the Yeti'', a children's book which, according to WorldCat, is held in 247 libraries and has been translated into Chinese, WorldCat item record
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teenage series, ''The Parallon Trilogy'', was published by Penguin. The 2nd book, ''Delirium'', was published in May 2013, and the third, ''Afterlife'', is due in 2014. Rights to the trilogy have been sold to

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Author and illustrator bibliography

* ''One Day Janie'' () * ''Jessie’s Special Day'' () * ''Dora’s New Brother'' () * ''Katie’s Special Tooth'' () * ''Roaring Billy'' () * ''The Visit'' () * ''Grandad and Me'' () * ''My Mum'' () * ''Aunt Bella’s Cat'' () * ''Magenta and the Ghost Babies'' () * ''Magenta and the Ghost Bride'' () * ''Magenta and the Ghost School'' () * ''Magenta and the Scary Ghosts'' () * ''Cry in the Dark'' () * ''Hetty the Yeti'' () * ''Polly Price’s Totally Secret Diary – On Stage in America'' () * ''Polly Price’s Totally Secret Diary – Reality TV Nightmare'' () * ''Polly Price’s Totally Secret Diary – Mum in Love'' ()

Illustrator bibliography

* By Chris Barton ** ''Cream Cake'' () * By Michaela Morgan ** ''Sausage and the Little Visitor'' () ** ''Sausage and the Spooks'' () ** ''School for Sausage'' () ** ''Sausage in Trouble'' () ** ''Happy Birthday Sausage'' () ** ''Cool Clive'' () ** ''Cool Clive and the little Pest'' () ** ''Cool Clive and the Bubble Trouble'' () ** ''Cool Clive the Coolest Kid Alive'' () ** ''Clive Keeps his Cool'' () ** ''Yum Yuck'' () ** ''Shelly Holmes, Ace Detective'' () ** ''Shelley Holmes, Animal Trainer'' () ** ''Woody’s Week'' () ** ''Pompom'' () ** ''Dustbin'' () ** ''Pickles Sniffs it out'' (978-0713638394) ** ''Invasion of the Dinner Ladies'' () ** ''The True Diary of Carly Ann Potter'' () * By Pat Thompson ** ''Mary-Anne and the Cat Baby'' () * By Sally Prue ** '' The Path of Finn McCool'' () * By Ivan Jones ** ''The Lazy Giant'' () * By Hiawyn Oram ** ''The Good Time Boys'' () * By Philip Wooderson ** ''Wilf, the Black Hole and the Poisonous Marigold'' () ** ''The Baked Bean Cure'' () ** ''Dad’s Dodgy Lodger'' () ** ''The Mincing Machine'' () * By Kes Grey and Linda Jennings ** ''Toffee and Marmalade'' () ** ''Billy Buzoni and Friends'' () ** ''Amazing Babies'' ()

References

External links

Official website

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