Peter Bently

Peter Bently (born 1960[1]) is a British children's writer. He is best known for his rhyming picture books including The Great Dog Bottom Swap (with Mei Matsuoka), Meet the Parents (with Sara Ogilvie), The Shark in the Dark (with Ben Cort) and Potion Commotion (with Sernur Isik). Cats Ahoy!, his first picture book with Jim Field, won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011[2] and King Jack and the Dragon (with Helen Oxenbury) was named as an American Library Association Notable Book of the year.[3]

For other people with similar names, see Peter Bentley (disambiguation).

Life

Peter Bently was born in 1960 in Tidworth, Hampshire, England. His father's job as an army bandmaster meant that Bently grew up in a variety of places in England and abroad, including Germany, Singapore and Hong Kong, and was educated at ten schools. After studying languages at Oxford, Bently worked as a journalist, then as an editor and writer of illustrated reference books.[4]

His first picture book for children, A Lark in the Ark, illustrated by Lynne Chapman, was published in 2008.[5] Since then he has written over seventy titles, most recently A Home in the Snow for Hodder (illustrated by Charles Fuge) and Princesses Don’t Parp! for Simon and Schuster. He lives in London.[6]

References
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  2. http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes/4/2011
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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