“Every
book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you
read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.”
– Jenny Nimmo
Born on this date in 1944, Nimmo is
a British author of children's books, including many fantasy and adventure
novels. While she was born in England,
she has lived mostly in Wales for the past 40 years and is probably best known
for two series of fantasy novels with their roots in that region: The
Magician Trilogy, contemporary stories rooted in Welsh myth, and Children
of the Red King.
A voracious reader as a child, she
started writing while still in elementary school but actually began her
professional writing career by adapting other writers’ stories for use by the
BBC. Her own first book The Bronze Trumpeter started as a BBC
script before she re-worked it. 
Her focus on writing for children
grew out of her firm belief that reading to children is vital to their
development. She said that reading to
her own 3 children made her a better writer – that and the Welsh landscape,
culture and myths that surrounded her and her family in their adopted home.
“Inspiration comes from the world
around me,” she said. “I'm an
inveterate eavesdropper.”
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