Barbara Mitchelhill is a

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of ''Run Rabbit Run'' and ''Road to London'' in addition to the ''Damian Drooth''

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for younger children. She is winner of Solihull Children's Book Award for her book ''Storm Runners'' and the Stockton Book of the Year for ''Run Rabbit Run''. "Barbara Mitchelhill was born in

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

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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

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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'', in the ''Damian Drooth'' series, was published in 2009. During this time she has worked with the Scottish Book Trust, and St Dominic's Priory School, Stone and is published by

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

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20091201154632/http://www.barbaramitchelhill.com/damian.htm Living people English children's writers English women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub