Non fiction
Introduction
Books for children
Books for adults
Introduction
I don’t write so much non-fiction these days, but wouldn’t rule it out. I wrote sixteen titles in the Animals in the Wild series for Belitha and a couple of other animal books for Brimax.
And I wrote a book on personal names, called Our Names, Our Selves, and had to change my name to do it! At the last moment my editor panicked that I might be too closely associated with children’s books and so I became Mary Lassiter for this one. Lassiter is my mother’s maiden name and we gave it to all our daughters as a third forename. Our oldest daughter liked it so much that she changed her name to Rhiannon Lassiter (Rhiannon was her second name).
Our Names, Our Selves was researched while I was at the Open University and written after I had left (and had our third daughter). Naming was much in my mind in those days and still is. I’ve stopped naming real children but do it all the time in my fiction.
Before I could earn my living as a writer of fiction, I did a lot of work in the field of literacy. (I was Reading Consultant to the BBC Schools TV series “Look and Read” for eighteen years – Bill the Brickie, Dog Detective and Wordy, anyone?).
I wrote a book for teachers called Reading Writing and Relevance, which was a set book for the Open University course on Reading Development. It was only my second book and I was a bit daunted when my Course Team Leader (as they were called at the OU) told me I had to write a set book. He assured me it would be very easy, as schools would send me material in the form of case-studies. In the end, we were so busy during term time writing and trying out course materials that Reading Writing and Relevance had to be done in the Christmas holidays in three weeks!
It was the quickest book I ever wrote but not the easiest. I was hosting Christmas that year and had a terrible cold the whole time.
Books for Children
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 Wild dogBelitha/Methuen 1987 0416017428 Buy from Amazon |
| Seal Belitha/Methuen 1987 0416017223 Buy from Amazon |
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| Antelope Belitha/Methuen 1987 0416017126 Buy from Amazon |
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| Bird of Prey Belitha/Methuen 1987 0416017320 Buy from Amazon |
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| Whales and Sharks Brimax Books 1986 0861123441 |
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| Dangerous Animals (with Trevor Weston) Brimax Books 1986 0861123395 |
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| Wild cat Belitha/Methuen 1986 0416961703 Buy from Amazon |
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| Giraffe Belitha/Methuen 1986 0416962009 Buy from Amazon |
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| Snake Belitha/Methuen 1986 0416961908 Buy from Amazon |
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| Bear Belitha/Methuen 1986 0416961800 Buy from Amazon |
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| Lion Belitha/Methuen 1985 0416533302 Buy from Amazon |
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| Zebra Belitha/Methuen 1985 041653340X Buy from Amazon |
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| Hippo Belitha/Methuen 1985 0416533205 Buy from Amazon |
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| Gorilla Belitha/Methuen 1985 0416533108 Buy from Amazon |
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| Tiger Belitha/Windward 1983 0711202745 Buy from Amazon |
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| Monkey Belitha/Windward 1983 0711202761 Buy from Amazon |
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| Elephant Belitha/Windward 1983 071120277X Buy from Amazon |
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| Panda Belitha/Windward 1983 0711202753 Buy from Amazon |
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 Reading, Writing and RelevanceHodder & Stroughton 1976 0340210257 |
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