Children's Fiction and Other Imaginative Writing

Between 1988 and 1995, Professor Andrew Gibson wrote and published five novels and one collection of short stories for children. The collection was illustrated by various artists, but the novels were all illustrated by the major talent of Chris Riddell. This is a side of Gibson’s work that has since gone into abeyance (or hibernation) but that he is now reviving.  Please click the images below for further information on each of the works published:

OTHER: NONSENSE VERSE, POEMS, OTHER FICTION, THE FUTURE

Professor Andrew Gibson has been writing poetry for a long time, but infrequently. He won the Mapleton-Bree Prize for poetry at St John’s College, Oxford in 1970. His poetry remains unpublished.  However, he has now embarked on two volumes of nonsense verse, one for his grandson, Yowan, entitled Yowan’s Powans, and the other for his nephew’s son Finn, entitled Finn’s Powinns. He will be looking for publishers for these two collections.

He is also close to completing the first draft of another story for children, The Gidgit Gang and the Struggle with the Box, and he’ll be hoping to publish this, too.

Andrew has also embarked on memoir-writing. He is working on a family memoir, not at present intended for publication, and plans to write a short memoir of his childhood and a memoir of his travels as a young man in his twenties.