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Jenny Nimmo


Born
in Windsor, Berkshire, The United Kingdom
January 15, 1944

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's Books


Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England and educated at boarding schools in Kent and Surrey from the age of six until the age of sixteen, when she ran away from school to become a drama student/assistant stage manager with Theater South East. She graduated and acted in repertory theater in various towns and cities: Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Hastings, and Bexhill.

She left Britain to teach English to three Italian boys in Almafi, Italy. On her return, she joined the BBC, first as a picture researcher, then as an assistant floor manager, studio manager (news) then finally a director/adaptor with Jackanory (a BBC storytelling program for children). She left BBC to marry a Welsh artist David Wynn Millward and went to l ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 200,843 ratings · 6,950 reviews · 158 distinct works • Similar authors
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Charlie Bone and the Time T...
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Charlie Bone and the Invisi...
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Charlie Bone and the Red Kn...
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Series by Jenny Nimmo

Midnight for Charlie Bone Charlie Bone and the Time T... Charlie Bone and the Invisi... Charlie Bone and the Castle... Charlie Bone and the Hidden... Charlie Bone and the Beast Charlie Bone and the Shadow
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“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”
― Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
tags: patience
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“You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam”
― Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Shadow
tags: charlie-bone, shadow, the-children-of-the-red-king
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“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.”
― Jenny Nimmo, Midnight for Charlie Bone
tags: books, jenny-nimmo, room, room-filled-with-books, smell-of-books, thoughts, words
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