Pat moon author biography

  • A teacher for many years - Pat Moon gave up the day job in 1991, when she published her first books for children - both in verse, Earthlines and Triplets.
  • About the author.
  • Pat Moon has traveled the world; he is always on the lookout for his next big adventure, usually finding it in the places most people can only dare dream.

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    Pat Moon

    www.carouselguide.co.uk
    Spring 2011, issue 47
    By Chris Stephenson

    Interrupted Journey

    When Pat måne was assembling her poems for Earth Lines: Poems for the Green Age twenty years ago, she needed to seek the advice and guidance of the peace campaigner Bruce Kent. In the way of these things, Kent returned her telephone call at the very moment her three children, Sam, Daisy and Ben, decided to start weighing in to each other with empty plastic cola bottles. The juxtaposition – conversation with notable CND activist against a background of mock warfare – has something of the same diverting incongruity as the vignettes of family life she later included in her fiction.

    Family life had long been a source of inspiration, as I learnt when I visited Pat and her husband David at their home in Norwich. She had been writing and illustrating books for the children long before anything was published. “Little stories,” David explained. “Little drawings. About family life.” He showe

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    Double Image

    August 12, 2019
    This book is probably a part of so many family's - as it is for my own. In Pat Moon's story, David is living in the late '70s, and due to a family bereavement, he has to go to a funeral, his grans. A short while later, his mum gets a call that her father (David's grandfather) is not coping and it is decided to get David to visit on the basis that 'David' is not coping with the summer hols!

    David is upset over this as he has plans to go camping with his friend, and also because it is a lie. However, he comes to realise that needs to do the deed and travelling by coach he arrives and settles in with his grandfather.

    There are lots of little nuances about how David is growing up, but the main thread is about how David discovers a photograph like himself, but subtly different, and how he gangs up with Hannah to investigate and discover the story. Importantly, what is central to this story is that of a death hidden away and the baggage that everyone carries

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    Honorary Degree - David and Pat Moon

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    Together through all the twists and turns of life - the story of alumni David and author Pat Moon

    Thursday, 25 November, 2021

    Since Bath kurort University opened an invitation gods month to former students to apply for an Honorary grad, more than 400 responses have been received.

    The invite to man themselves known, open to all those who completed a Certificate of Education before 31 månad 1981 at one of its predecessor colleges, is also an opportunity to share memories of time spent on campus. Photos, stories, experiences – all memories are welcome.

    David Moon, husband of poet and children’s book author Pat Moon, got in touch and says he still remembers his time spent studying at Newton Park with his then newlywed wife Pat, very fondly.

    Pat wrote prolifically throughout her career, and created works that continue to be widely read today, including her Do Not Read series, novels including The Spying Game, and a collectio