Paul Shipton is an award-winning children's author.

He was born in Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 and attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary...

 and Manchester University. After completing two Masters' degrees (in Classics and Philosophy), he taught English in Istanbul

Istanbul

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 for a year. After returning to the UK, he taught English as a foreign language for several years, and it was around this time that he published his first book, Zargon Zoo (1991). Four years later, he published Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear, and relocated with his family to Wisconsin, United States

Wisconsin

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 where he works as a freelance writer and editor. He also writes books for younger readers under the pen name Paul Cooper. He, his wife and two daughters, now divide their time between Cambridge, England

Cambridge

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 and Madison, Wisconsin.

Partial bibliography

• Zargon Zoo (1991)
• Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear (1995)
• The Mighty Skink (1996)
• Bug Muldoon and the Killer in the Rain (1998) (winner of the Austrian Children's Book of the year)
• The Pig Scrolls
  The Pig Scrolls
  The Pig Scrolls , by Paul Shipton, is a young adult comedy adventure novel about a talking pig and his endeavours to save the world. The novel is set in Ancient Greece with many, often comical, references to ancient Greek mythology and life...
  
  (2002)
• The Pig Who Saved the World
  The Pig Who Saved the World
  The Pig Who Saved the World is the sequel to The Pig Scrolls, both of which have been written by Paul Shipton. It is set in Ancient Greece and makes references to Greek mythology concerning their gods and heroes...
  
  (2005) (winner of the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award in 2006)
• The Man Who Was Hate

As Paul Cooper:

• Pigs in Planes: The Chicken Egg-splosion (2010)
• Pigs in Planes: The Shark Bites Back (2010)
• Pigs in Planes: The Big Baad Sheep (2010)
• Pigs in Planes: The Mega Monkey Mystery (2010)

External links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/kids/authors/shipton/
• http://www.achuka.co.uk/archive/interviews/pshfile.php