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| Known for her imaginative and thoughtful children’s books, British author '''Sylvia Waugh''' began her writing career in her late forties. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh steered her passion and creativity into the literary world. In 1993, she published her first book The Mennyms which eventually evolved into an entire series. These books are her most regarded and honored works having received the Birmingham Readers and Writers Children's Book Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Carnegie Award shortlist, the Reading Matic Award Top-Ten designation, the Silver Kiss award (Netherlands), and the Children's Books of Distinction designation. | Known for her imaginative and thoughtful children’s books, British author '''Sylvia Waugh''' began her writing career in her late forties. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh steered her passion and creativity into the literary world. In 1993, she published her first book The Mennyms which eventually evolved into an entire series. These books are her most regarded and honored works having received the Birmingham Readers and Writers Children's Book Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Carnegie Award shortlist, the Reading Matic Award Top-Ten designation, the Silver Kiss award (Netherlands), and the Children's Books of Distinction designation. | ||
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Known for her imaginative and thoughtful children’s books, British author Sylvia Waugh began her writing career in her late forties. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh steered her passion and creativity into the literary world. In 1993, she published her first book The Mennyms which eventually evolved into an entire series. These books are her most regarded and honored works having received the Birmingham Readers and Writers Children's Book Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Carnegie Award shortlist, the Reading Matic Award Top-Ten designation, the Silver Kiss award (Netherlands), and the Children's Books of Distinction designation.
The Mennyms takes readers into the creative world of a family of life-size rag dolls who pretend to be human. The Mennyms were created by an elderly seamstress named Kate Penshaw. After her death, the dolls come to life, take over the house, and assume the stereotypical roles of a normal family. There are two teenaged dolls, a grandfather, a baby, and a mother and father. The family lives undisturbed for forty years which causes them to eventually become restless and bored with their lives. When a letter comes from the flat’s owner in Australia telling of his plans to make a visit, the Mennyms become anxious and are forced to figure out what to do.
After the publication of the first book in The Mennyms series, Sylvia Waugh found herself an immediate success with both readers and reviewers in her native England and in the United States. The continuation and success of the series with the books Mennyms in the Wilderness (1994), Mennyms Under Siege (1995), Mennyms Alive (1996), and Mennyms Alone (1996) proves her creativity and her mastery of story telling.
In addition to The Mennyms series, Waugh wrote three novels in the “Ormingat” series. This series looks at a group of space aliens from Ormingat who begin to live as humans on planet Earth. Like The Mennyms series, the Ormingat books also focus on the idea that things are not always what they seem. The “Ormingat” series includes: Space Race (2000), Earthborn (2002), and Who Goes Home? (2003). Waugh’s books are often rich with magic and morals about loving yourself and accepting who you are.