I have nineteen
years’ experience in publishing and have written around 80 books for children. I
specialize in history and global issues and also write on world religions and
human geography topics. I am currently a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at
the University of Sussex.
I also
undertake editorial and project management work on a wide range of subjects for
adults and children.
Contact details:
Address:
Publishing Partners, 4th Floor, Intergen House, 65–67 Western Road,
Hove, BN3 2JQ, East Sussex
Tel:
01273 728382 /
07815 983022
Email:
cathsenker@yahoo.com
Web address:
www.cathsenker.co.uk
Age group
preferences:
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Famous
Lives: Anne Frank (9–11)
Hodder
Wayland, 2001
The
first book I wrote, and still my title that is most borrowed from
libraries.
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Global
Questions: Why Do People Seek Asylum? (11–14)
Franklin
Watts, 2008
One of
several books that I have written about refugees. I aim to present
different viewpoints in a non-judgemental way as a basis for discussion.
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Moving to
Britain from Somalia (7–9)
Franklin
Watts, 2008
This is
one of four titles in this series that I wrote; Howard Davies took the
photos. We worked closely with Fahad (featured on the cover) and allowed
him and his family to tell their story.
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Talking
About My Faith: I am Muslim (6–8)
Franklin
Watts, 2005
This is
one of a series produced by working with individual children and their
families to help readers to understand people of different faiths.
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Atlas of
World Faiths: Judaism (11–14)
Franklin
Watts, 2007
For
this book and the Islam title in the same series, I combined my
knowledge of world religions and history.
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Signs and Symbols: Hinduism (7–9)
Wayland, 2008
This series of four titles was a different take on the usual world
religions titles and presented quite a challenge to write. Each book
includes lively religious stories, poems, songs and folk tales.
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Questioning History: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (11–14)
Wayland,
2008 (reprint)
I have
a particular interest in the Middle East conflict and presenting the
various viewpoints fairly. A review in the School Library Journal noted
that ‘Throughout,
the tone is nonjudgmental. Neither Palestinians nor Israelis are
represented as wholly in the right or without blame for violent
attacks.’
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Talk About Racism
Wayland, 2008
Racism changes over time; I believe it is important to produce
children’s books on the topic to aid discussion of how racism manifests
itself and how to prevent it.
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How to Get
Ahead in Catering (11–16)
Raintree,
2006
Careers
books were a new departure for me; I interviewed school students on work
experience, catering students and workers in the industry, allowing them
to tell their own story about their working life.
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Letters
From Around the World: Saudi Arabia
(Cherrytree,
2007)
I’ve
written several books in this human geography series, which combines a
child’s personal experience of living in a country with general
information about life there.
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