Dominic Barker

Dominic Barker (born 1966) is a British children's author.


Biography

Dominic Barker was born in Southport in 1966. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in English and then spent two years as part of a comedy double act before deciding to become a teacher.

He currently lives in Barcelona, where he blogs on the city at bigbarcelonablog.blogspot.com and on random other stuff at dominicbarker.blogspot.com.

Bibliography
  • Mickey Sharp series:
    • Sharp Stuff (1999)
    • Sharp Shot (2001)
    • Sharp Returns (2003)
    • Sharp Beats (2008)
  • Blart series:
  • Adam and the Arkonaughts (2010)
  • Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble(2011)
    • Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Catch a Criminal (2011)
    • Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Be a Genius (2011)
    • Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Build an Abominable Snowman (2012)
    • Max and Molly's Guide to Trouble: How to Stop a Viking Invasion (summer 2012)

Awards and nominations
gollark: The haskell version uses *floats*, if you can believe that.
gollark: <@!319753218592866315> Fix the code in a way which will *not* entirely kill performance.
gollark: Wonderful.
gollark: ```rust// randomly increase/decrease one of the channels in a color by `range`fn mod_channel(rng: &mut WyRand, range: u16, n: u16) -> u16 { let rand = rng.generate_range(0, range * 2 + 1); let o = ((n as u32) + (rand as u32)).saturating_sub(range as u32); o as u16}```
gollark: This is basically just meant to increase/decrease a `u16` by a randomly generated `u16` amount.

References
  1. Branford Boase Award
  2. "'Oscars' for children's books". The Northern Echo. 2 March 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
  3. Richard & Judy#Children's Book Club


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