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Angela Royston

I have been writing children’s information books – for school libraries and for trade – for many years. Before that I was an in-house editor and continue to do freelance editing as well as writing. My skills as an editor feed into my writing and vice versa. 

My main areas of interest are:

bulletthe human body
bulletnatural history
bulletscience and technology

I like writing books that are fun and have recently written texts for an educational website and CDROMs. I am experience in writing projects that are suitable for the US market as well as the UK market. I visit schools regularly as writer in residence over an 8 or 10 week period, or to run one-off creative science writing workshops for key stage 2 classes.

I project edit illustrated non-fiction books for adults as well as for children and am experienced at all aspects of editing from planning to the minutiae of text editing. I have an Apple Mac and can edit in Quark.

Contact details: 

Email: angela@roystonmail.co.uk

Web address: www.angelaroyston.com

Age group preferences:

bulletpre-school
bullet5 to 11

Some recent titles:

Puppy by Angela Royston

 

Baby Animals series

Chrysalis, 2004

How animals grow from babies to adult, for pre-school.

 

Lets Look at a Comic Book by Angela Royston

 

Materials Detectives series

Raintree, 2006

What things are made of and why, for 4–6 year olds.

 

Heavy and Light by Angela Royston

 

My World of Science series

Heinemann First Library, 2003 & 2004

21 titles covering key stage 1 science.

 

Deserts by Angela Royston

 

My World of Geography series,

Heinemann Young Explorer 2004

Different environments and how people live there, for 5–7 year olds.

 

Allergies by Angela Royston

 

It’s Not Catching series

Heinemann First Library, 2004

Series about common conditions and health problems, for 5–7 year olds.

 

Why does My Body Smell by Angela Royston

 

Body Matters series

Heinemann Infosearch, 2002

Series that answers the kind of questions about the human body that fascinate 7–11 year olds.

 

Eco Action

Heinemann Library 2007

bulletTravel of the Future
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Buildings of the Future
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Energy of the Future
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Consumerism of the Future

Series that looks at technology that is being developed to counteract global warming and ways of saving energy until the new technology takes over.

 

Extreme Weather by Angela Royston

 

Digitexts

Longman 2005 & 2006

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Extreme Weather

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Ice Bricks and Straw Roofs

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Extreme Habitats

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Space Probe

Interactive reading CDROMs designed to cover the Literacy Framework and parts of the science curriculum – the series won the 2006 Bett Awards for literacy.

 

Space Station - Accident on Mir by Angela Royston

 

Space Station – Accident on Mir

Dorling Kindersley, 2003

A non-fiction reader telling the true story of how astronaut Michael Foale helped to save the space station Mir from disaster.