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Lauren St John


South Africa (b.1966)

Lauren St John was born in Rhodesia in 1966 and lived on a farm there until she was 16. She worked as a journalist for several years and has written biographies of sporting heroes and Nashville musicians - golf and country music being two of her obsessions - for Transworld, Picador and Fourth Estate. Her memoir of growing up during independence in Zimbabwe will be published by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2007.She lives in London.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Children's Fiction
 
Series
African Adventures
   1. The White Giraffe (2006)
   2. Dolphin Song (2007)
   3. The Last Leopard (2008)
   4. The Elephant's Tale (2009)
   5. Anthony Ant Saves the Day (2015)
   6. Operation Rhino (2015)
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One Dollar Horse trilogy
   1. The One Dollar Horse (2012)
   2. Race the Wind (2013)
   3. Fire Storm (2014)
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Novels
   The Obituary Writer (2013)
   The Glory (2015)
   Mercy and the Hippo (2017)
   The Snow Angel (2017)
   Falling Into You (2018)
   Wave Riders (2021)
   Finding Wonder (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Series contributed to
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Chapter Books show
 
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Lauren St John recommends
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Impossible Creatures (2023)
Katherine Rundell
"Katherine Rundell is a prodigiously gifted storyteller and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES is wildly good. Spectacularly inventive, it is both a thrilling and page-turning epic and a clarion call to young readers to use the special gifts of childhood- love, courage, imagination and open-heartedness - to fight to save precious creatures of all kinds before they vanish before our eyes. My Book of the Year."
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Sky Song (2018)
Abi Elphinstone
"A shimmering thrill-ride of a book. I loved every page."
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Team Magic (2015)
(Tilly's Horse, Magic)
Pippa Funnell
"Fab storytelling from a top rider who knows horses inside out."

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Awards
Blue Peter Book Award Book of the Year winner (2011) : Dead Man's Cove


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