Hi, and welcome to my official website.

If you were looking for Tim Wynne-Jones, the nuclear physicist, I’m sorry but you’ve been led cruelly astray. This is the official website of the other Tim Wynne-Jones, the one who writes books, primarily for kids. I’ve written over thirty books so far, for kids of all ages, and not one of them is on nuclear physics. I might become a nuclear physicist, mind you, if this writing thing doesn’t pan out. Or a cook. I like cooking better than I like solving equations involving the speeds of sub atomic particles. They are so fast! Anyway, let’s just drop this. I’m not quite sure why you brought up the whole nuclear physics thing in the first place. I’m a writer. I write books: picture books, middle grade novels, young adult novels – that kind of thing. Look around the website and you’ll get an idea of what I’m talking about. And thanks for dropping over. No, seriously. I know how busy you are. How about I go make us a nice dish of paella, or something? Maybe some Pad Thai? Take your time. I’ll be in the kitchen. (Or, who knows, maybe in my secret underground lab…)

  The tumbling monsters on my nameplate above are adapted from the cover of Tumbledown Hill, and used here with many thanks to the artist Dušan Petričič.
NEW NEWS!
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The Uninvited has been nominated for the Indigo Teen Reads Award. If you want to find out more (or vote, maybe?) please click this link: teenreadawards.ca


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I'm really excited to be a part of JW Jones's great new album. I wrote five of the songs with the blues-meister himself. For more information check out his website

Rex Zero, The Great Pretender has been short-listed for the Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award. Here's the website.

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I’m over the moon to see all three Zoom books in one gorgeous new edition. Groundwood Books has done a beautiful job of repackaging the series. Thanks especially to Michael Solomon for his exquisite design. Eric Beddows has drawn a lovely new illustration for the cover, as well. Zoom at Sea was first published in 1983, Zoom Away in 1985 and Zoom Upstream, a decade later. Eric actually went to Egypt to research the pharaoh’s tombs for the last of the trilogy!

Click on the "Contact" button and scrolling down to "Appearances" to find out where I’m going to be in 2010. Hope I get to see you.

 

   
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