Simon David "Chappers" Chapman (born 26 April 1965) is a British children's writer, explorer and science teacher. His books include the ''Explorers Wanted!'' series, of which ''Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole'' won a
Blue Peter Book Award
The Blue Peter Book Awards were a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme '' Blue Peter''. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, ...
in 2005.
Blue Peter Book Awards 2005
Chapman taught Science at Morecambe Bay Academy
Morecambe Bay Academy is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was founded as Morecambe Grammar School in 1919, moving to its current site on Dallam Avenue in 1938 on ...
in Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
. Chapman studied Mechanical Engineering at University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
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Simon Chapman
at publisher Egmont (archived 2006-10-05)
"Morecambe High School pupils visit CERN as guests of Lancaster University's Physics Department"
(18 July 2014), Science and Technology at Lancaster University
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1965 births
British children's writers
Children's non-fiction writers
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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