Dan smith author biography samples

  • Dan Smith is the author of a range of adventure stories for 7-12 year olds.
  • Now settled in Newcastle with his wife and two children, Dan writes stories to share with both adults and children – and with an interest in World War 2.
  • Dan Smith was a bashful, Scottish shipyard-worker who eventually ministered in England, China, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Canada, the United States, several.

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    Title: Nisha’s War

    Author: Dan Smith

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Publisher: Chicken House

    Published: 1st April 2022

    Format: Paperback

    Pages: 368

    Price: $16.99

    Synopsis: 1942.

    Nisha has escaped the terror of the Japanese invasion of Singapore. Missing the heat  of home in Malaya, her grandmother’s house in the North of England seems especially cold and grey. Even the villagers are suspicious of a girl with brown skin who they can see is only half English.

    One night, a boy beckons to Nisha from the treehouse she is forbidden from playing in. Or at least, she thinks he’s a boy. And for lonely Nisha, the chance of finding a friend fryst vatten worth almost anything …

    A gorgeously evoked wartime ghost story and adventure full of grief, guilt, forgiveness and belonging.

    A fresh vinkel on a war time story: the prejudice Nisha faces as a flykting feels particularly relevant today.

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    In 1942, as the Japanese begin their invasion of Singapore, and head

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    Dan Smith

    Biography

    The only man to whom the gift was given to draw accurately a scene merely glimpsed was Dan Smith, who came later upon The World to enormously raise the prestige and status of the downtrodden but patient toilers, not only by his piety and sobriety, the same being the son of a parson, but by his marvelous technique. He did not need to make sketches, this wizard of the pen and brush, one swift squint at the scene was enough. He is going strong still, but I wonder that our envy did not poison him in early life!

                       - Walter Hugh McDougall, This is the Life! (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1926)

     

    Dan Smith was an illustrator of remarkable talent and distinctive style, whose work from the 1890s through the early 1930s earned him widespread recognition. Yet, as well-known and highly regarded as he was in his lifetime, he has since, like so many of the masterful practitioners from the G

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    Authors Online Profile

    Dan Smith | Author

    Dan Smith is the author of a range of adventure stories for 7-12 year olds.   MY FRIEND THE ENEMY, BELOW ZERO and SHE WOLF are just a few of them.   He is brilliant at sharing his enthusiasm and excitement for books with children through virtual visits as well as by visiting schools in person.

    Online Introduction

    What I can do for you

    • A shortened, virtual version of my assembly style presentation. This would be about 15 minutes (I feel that any longer might result in fidgety children), followed by Q&A for about 15-20 mins. (Whole session 30-45 mins)
    • Similar to above, but focussing on a specific book.
    • Q&A sessions
    • If a class wants to email questions to me, I can record answers and send a video file so that the class can watch/re-watch as and when they like.

    Examples of my online work

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