Tom Moorhouse BiographyTom Moorhouse is an unusual mix - half children's author and half research ecologist at Oxford University. His debut novel
The River Singers (2013) won the 2015 Quality Fiction category of the North Somerset Teachers' Book Awards. It was nominated for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, longlisted for the 2015 UKLA and 2014 Branford Boase awards and shortlisted for the 2016 Stockton Children's Book of the Year. Its sequel
The Rising was published in 2014. His latest,
Trickster (2016), was nominated for the 2016 Carnegie Medal. In 2017 his first follow-ups to The Wind in the Willows (
A Race for Toad Hall and
Toad Hall in Lockdown) came out.
Tom Moorhouse FactsIn 2016 he gathered together some of his fellow authors, Lantana Publishing and a crowdfunding campaign to create
A Wisp of Wisdom, giving Cameroonian children back their stories.
His books have so far been translated into seven languages, the French translation of The River Singers winning Le Prix LibbyLit for junior fiction in 2014.
Our favourite Tom Moorhouse Book CharactersGabble - from
TricksterMr Toad - from
The Adventures of Mr Toad