Diana Kimpton

I've always made up stories. When I was a child, I did it in my head - usually using characters from my favourite TV programmes. But I never saw it as a possible career especially as I never liked English at school. Perhaps I was already too much a writer at heart to enjoy dissecting other people's stories.

So I left school and became a maths teacher which I didn't like. Then I left teaching and became a mother which I loved. Finally, in the time left over from mothering, I became a writer which I found was enormous fun.

New writers are often advised to 'write what they know' and that's certainly how I started. My first book, A Special Child in the Family, was triggered by my own experiences parenting two sons with cystic fibrosis and so was my first non-fiction children's book, The Hospital Highway Code. My maths and science background still shows in my other non-fiction writing and my life-long passion for horses helps me write The Pony-Mad Princess.

 

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Featured Books, with extracts by Diana Kimpton

Amy Wild, Animal Talker: The Secret Necklace
Diana Kimpton
Amy has lived in the city all her life, so is not at all happy to be leaving her friends and moving to a remote island because her parents have decided to go and live with Amy’s great aunt to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/10/2009
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Amy Wild, Animal Talker: The Musical Mouse
Diana Kimpton
Having moved from the city to a remote island with her mum and dad, Amy has settled down to life there with her special power of being able to talk to animals.  Amy has lots of furry and feathery friends. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/10/2009
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Princess Ellie Saves The Day
Diana Kimpton
The combination of ponies and princesses is a match made in heaven and there can be no girl who won’t devour this one and the various others in the series.  Brilliant stocking filler for that pony mad and / or...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2006
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Princess Ellie to the Rescue
Diana Kimpton
Princess Ellie is pony-mad! And she's fed up with being a princess! She'd much rather be riding one of her four gorgeous ponies.  Full of authentic pony facts and sparkly princessy detail this series is sure to set the mind...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/07/2004
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