David Henry Wilson

David Henry Wilson (* 1937 in London ) is a British author for children and young people.

Life

After studying at Dulwich and Pembroke College in Cambridge , he worked as a teacher in France, Ghana and Germany. At the University of Konstanz he was an academic senior counselor and founded a student theater there. He also taught at the University of Bristol .

David Henry Wilson is married with three grown children. He lives in Taunton , Somerset . His plays have been performed in England, America, Germany and Scandinavia.

Works

Jeremy James is the hero of children's books Wilson wrote since 1977. The titles of the books are:

• Jeremy James or Elephants don't sit on Cars
• 1979: Jeremy James or When Pigs Had Wings ( Getting Rich with Jeremy James)
• 1980: Jeremy James in the sand on the beach and elsewhere ( Beside the Sea with Jeremy James)
• Jeremy James or the gerbil is gone
• 1985: Ashmadi (The Coachman Council). Translated into German by Annemarie Böll. (New edition 1996)
• Jeremy James or Can a Goldfish Play the Violin?
• 1993: Jeremy James or How do you actually become king? ( Please Keep Off the Dinosaur)
• 1996: Jeremy James or Mit Karacho around the curve ( Do Gerbils Go to Heaven?)
• 2001: Jeremy James or Never Steal Wheels from a Dog

The British original was published by Chatto and Windus Ltd. London, later with Pan Macmillan Children's Books London. The first German edition was published by Friedrich Oetinger Verlag in Hamburg. The illustrations and the cover are by Peter Schössow , in later volumes by Eva Czerwenka .