Last Friday, March 4th, awarding winning author Alan Gibbons kicked off The British School of Nanjing’s Book Week.

Alan Gibbons was born in 1953 in Warrington, Cheshire, later moving with his family to Crewe.

He was a schoolteacher for some time and now works as a full-time writer and independent educational consultant. He is also a regular contributor to education newspapers and magazines such as Times Education Supplement and Junior Education.

Alan Gibbons won the Blue Peter Book Award: The Book I Couldn't Put Down in 2000 for Shadow of the Minotaur (2000), and has been shortlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Prize.