Sally gardner

Sally Gardner is a British children's literature writer and illustrator.
Sally Gardner is a British children's literature writer and illustrator.
About Sally's Books.

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Sally Gardner

Maggot Moon
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3.81 avg rating — 9,867 ratings — published 2012 — 70 editions

I, Coriander

3.83 avg rating — 8,198 ratings — published 2005 — 47 editions

The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)

3.79 avg rating — 8,171 ratings — published 2007 — 36 editions

The Silver Blade (French Revolution, #2)

3.92 avg rating — 2,147 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions

The Snow Song

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,085 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions

Tinder
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3.87 avg rating — 2,063 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions

The Door That Led to Where

3.61 avg rating — 1,455 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions

The Weather Woman

3.99 avg rating — 1,218 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions

Operation Bunny (Wings & Co, #1)

3.97 avg rating — 1,219 ratings — published 2012 — 27 editions

The Three Pickled Herrings (Wings & Co, #

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I was born in Birmingham, near the Cadbury’s chocolate factory, and I grew up in Gray’s Inn, central London, in Raymond Buildings. My family (my parents, my younger brother and I) lived there because both my parents were lawyers. When I was around age five they separated and later divorced.

I was badly bullied at school because I was different from other children. I had trouble tying my shoes, and coordinating my clothes, and I had no idea what C-A-T spelled once the teacher took away the picture. My brain was said to be a sieve rather than a sponge – I was the child who lost the information rather than retained it.

I stayed in kindergarten until I was really too old to be there and finally was asked to leave the school. This became a pattern that repeated itself throughout my learning years.

At eleven I was told I was word-blind. This was before anyone mentioned the un-sayable, un-teachable, un-spellable word dyslexia, which, hey-ho, even to this day I can’t spell!

I eventually ended up in a school for maladjusted children because there was no other school that would take me.

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Sally Gardner

British children's writer and illustrator

For the horse, see Sallie Gardner.

Sally Gardner is a British children's literature writer and illustrator. She won both the Costa Book Award for Children's Book and the Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books, 2012).^[1]^[2]^[3] Under her pseudonym Wray Delaney she has also written adult novels.^[4]

Life

Sally Gardner is the daughter of two lawyers. She was raised in Birmingham; her parents separated and later divorced when she was five.^[5] Her mother, Nina Lowry, was a barrister and judge at the Old Bailey.^[6]

Gardner recalls being badly bullied in school, even being nicknamed 'Silly Sally' on account of her then undiagnosed dyslexia.^[7] She was formally diagnosed with severe dyslexia at 12^[2] and didn't learn to read until she was 14, with the first book she read in full being Wuthering Heights. Noticed by teachers for her creative flair, she did very well in art college and then in drama college, and worked as a theat