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Paula Knight

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in Darlington, The United Kingdom

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Comics

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Maya Angelou, Tove Jansson, Marjane Satrapi

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Paula is an author, illustrator and comics creator. She has illustrated numerous books for children and written three children's picture books as author. She's been a professional freelance illustrator since 1992.

Her first graphic memoir, The Facts of Life, (for adults) is published by Myriad Editions (UK) and Penn State University Press (N America). It's about the pressures on women to have children and what happens when life doesn't go to plan. An extract of it was shortlisted in Myriad's inaugural First Graphic Novel Competition in 2012. Judges included Ian Rankin, Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry and Steve Bell.

"Intensely moving… honest and personal. It is a story told in pictures with sparse words about fertility, about loss, about growth. ...more

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	The Facts of Life 4.14 avg rating — 274 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lion Who Lost his Roar, But Learned to Draw by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author), Daniel Howarth (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Takes Two to T'wit T'woo by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author), Guiliano Ferri (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roble's Rain Dance by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author), Gavin Scott (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My First 100 Words by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author), Betty Root 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My First 100 Words in Spanish/English by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author), Betty Root really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mis Primeras 100 Palabras/ My First 100 Words by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author) (illustrator), Betty Root (Contribution by) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Red Riding Hood 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storytime: The Lion Who Lost His Roar But Learnt To Draw by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author), Daniel Howarth (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shapes by Paula Knight (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Felicia Law liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Facts of Life – thank you!

This year saw the publication of my first graphic novel, The Facts of Life. I’d like to say a big THANK YOU to anyone who has read, bought, borrowed, reviewed, written about, left ratings, shared, ‘liked’, tweeted, retweeted, mentioned, or … Continue reading →

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Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests

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Into being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform

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