In 2010 Mitchelhill was awarded the Solihull Children's Book Award.

Barbara Mitchel-Hill is a children's author

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 of the Damian Drooth series

Book series

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, and winner of the Solihull Children's Book Award for her book Stormrunners.

"Barbara Mitchelhill was born in Rochdale

Rochdale

Rochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, north-northwest of Oldham, and north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan...

 and trained as a teacher. While she was teaching, she began writing for BBC

BBC

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 children's TV and went on to write for educational publishers, before writing novels for children. She makes school visits all over the country, and enjoys appearing at literary festivals and talking to teachers and librarians, some as far away as the Caribbean

Caribbean

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. Her hobbies include reading, theatre, music, gardening and walking her border terrier, Ella. She lives in Staffordshire and has two grown-up daughters and four grandchildren."

Gruesome Ghosts is her latest Damian Drooth book coming in Autumn 2009. During this time she has worked with The Scottish Book Trust, St Dominic's Priory School (Stone)

St Dominic's Priory School (Stone)

St Dominic's Priory School is an independent Catholic School in the town of Stone, Staffordshire. Stone, itself, is an attractive, thriving market town with an expanding population of 12,500, halfway between Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. The school buildings are set within the pleasant grounds of St...

 and is published by Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

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External links

• http://www.barbaramitchelhill.com/damian.htm