Lesley Howarth

Lesley Howarth (born 29 December 1952) is a British author of children's and young adult fiction. For the novel Maphead, published by Walker Books in 1994, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.

Reviewers including Philip Pullman have remarked upon Howarth's ability to "humanize" highly technical or unusual subjects, a tendency which she calls "the romance of hard things".

Biography
Howarth was born 29 December 1952 in Bournemouth, England. As a child, she attended the Bournemouth School for Girls, then, as an adult, received education from the Bournemouth College of Art and Croydon College of Art.

Awards
The Pits (1996) is a Junior Library Guild book.

In January 2000, The Guardian named Mister Spaceman the children's book of the week.

Works

 * The Flower King (1993)
 * MapHead (1994)
 * Weather Eye (1995)
 * The Pits (1996)
 * Fort Biscuit (1996), illustrated by Ann Kronheimer
 * Welcome to Inner Space (1997)
 * MapHead 2 (1997); US title, Maphead: the return
 * Quirx : The Edge of the World (1998)
 * Bad Rep (1998), illus. Mark Oliver
 * Paulina (1999)
 * Yamabusters (1999)
 * The Squint (1999), illus. Jeff Cummins
 * Aliens for Dinner (1999)
 * Mister Spaceman (2000)
 * I Managed a Monster (2000)
 * No Accident (2000)
 * Ultraviolet (2001)
 * Carwash (2002)
 * Dade County's Big Summer (2002)
 * Drive (2004)
 * Colossus (2004)
 * Calling the Shots (2006)
 * Bodyswap: The Boy Who Was 84 (2009)
 * Tales from the Sick Bed (London: Catnip, 2009), as by L. P. Howarth
 * Tales from the Sick Bed: Brainstorms
 * Tales from the Sick Bed: Fever Dreams
 * Tales from the Sick Bed: The Medicine Chest


 * Swarf (2010)