Information about the books, author visits and TV series by Andrew Norriss.

Andrew Norriss’s Homepage is:

Andrew Norriss

                www.andrewnorriss.co.uk

 Andrew Norriss writes children’s books, and when he is not writing he enjoys nothing more than talking to children in schools.  He adapted his books Aquila, Bernard’s Watch, and Matt’s Million for television and also wrote the Woof! tv series. He has written several tv sitcoms for adults including  ‘The Brittas Empire’ and ‘Chance in a Million’ with co-writer Richard Fegen.

 For information about Andrew Norriss’s books and school visits including activity sheets, check out the pages to the left.

 

For websites related to Andrew Norrisss books, tv  series and writing, including Youtube videos, try the links on the right.

  

 Great News! Ctrl-Z is shortlisted for Solihull and Hillingdon Book Awards in 2010 

 

  

Books by Andrew Norriss

 

 

Ctrl-Z

 

Read an excerpt : Ctrl-Z – Chapter 1

Click here for review  on Trapped by Monsters  and here for review on Amazon

 

 

 

Aquila - Winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book Award

Read an excerpt :  Chapter1 pages 1to4

Click here for a review.

 

 

The Unluckiest Boy in the World The Unluckiest Boy in the World

Lancashire Children’s Choice the for Fantastic Book Award for 9-11years.

Read an excerpt:  The Unluckiest Boy in the World – part of chapter 3

 

 

The Touchstone

Read an excerpt: The Touchstone Chapter 1

 

 

 

 

The Portal –   Winner of the Bedfordshire Children’s Book Award

 Read an excerpt :  The Portal-chapter 1 Click here to read a review.

 

 

 

Bernard’s Watch –  Made into a brilliant TV series.

Read an excerpt:   coming soon…

 

 

 

 

Matt's Mllion

Matt’s MillionMade into a brilliant TV series.

 

Television Series

 

The Brittas Empire
Aquila

Woof!

Bernard’s Watch

Matt’s Million

Chance in a Million

Erica

Ffizz

 

 

I try to be accurate and uptodate,but any errors on this website are mine and not Andrew Norriss’s. Meopham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author visits in Primary schools

If you are a teacher or librarian who wants to inspire the reluctant, as well as the keen,  readers in your class, you won’t find better than children’s author Andrew Norriss. He will leave the children feeling empowered and full of enthusiasm for reading and writing. Read the  feedback from some of the school visits that Andrew has made so far  this year and to find out details of his school visits go to  http://anorrissbooks.wordpress.com

Andrew Norriss is the writer of Aquila, Bernard’s Watch, The Brittas Empire and the Woof! series for TV.

There are links for those on the website too.

What’s on this site…

This website has information about children’s author Andrew Norriss.

Click on the links on the right side

Pages include:

  • Books by Andrew Norriss
  • information about school talks and workshops by Andrew Norriss
  • How to get signed copies of Andrew Norriss’s books
  • Book Awards
  • Word Searches, Crosswords and Worksheets to download
  • Literacy resources for use withAndrew Norriss’s books in school
  • KS2 Literacy ideas and worksheets
  • Television Credits
  • Links to Television programmes