David R. Morgan lives in Bedfordshire.  He has been an arts worker and literature officer, organizer of Book Festivals and writer-in-residence for education authorities, a prison and a psychiatric hospital (which was the subject of a Channel 4 film "Out of Our Minds."  He has had two plays broadcast on ITV "Birthdaze" and "Where's Melissa?"

His books for children include "The Strange Case of William Whipper-Snapper", three InfoRider books for Collins and "Blooming Cats", which won the Acorn Children's Book Award and was recently animated for BBC2's Words and Pictures Plus, as well as a humorous children's biography "Spilling the Beans on Boudicca." 

David has also written poetry books including "The Broken Picture Book", "The Windmill and the Grains" (Hawthorn Prize) and "Buzz Off."  He has had many poems included in both adult and children's poetry anthologies.  His poetry collection "Walrus on a Rocking Chair", illustrated by John Welding, is soon to be published by Claire Publications.

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