External links
- Sylvia Waugh at the Library of Congress, with 8 library catalogue records
- Sylvia Waugh at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Sylvia Waugh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935 (age 90–91) Gateshead, England |
| Occupation | Writer of children's books |
| Children | 3 |
| Writing career | |
| Notable awards | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1994) |
Sylvia Waugh (born 1935) is a British writer of children's books.
Waugh was born in Gateshead, Northern England in 1935. Having worked as a teacher, careers advisor and teacher-librarian, Waugh began her writing career in 1987. Her first book, The Mennyms, was published by Julia McRae in 1993 and won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. She continued The Mennyms as a series of five books (1993 to 1996).
Beside winning the Guardian Prize, The Mennyms (book one) was recognised in other ways:
