Tim Kipper

by Robert Swindells, Scoular Anderson

Tim Kipper smoked so much that a chimney grew out of his head.

32 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 1990

About the author

Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939, the eldest of five children. He left the local Secondary Modern School at fifteen to work as a copy holder on the local newspaper. At seventeen he enlisted in the RAF and served for three years, two in Germany. On being discharged he worked as a clerk, engineer and printer until 1969 when he entered college to train as a teacher having obtained five 'O' levels at night-school. His first book 'When Darkness Comes' was written as a college thesis and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1972. In 1980 he gave up teaching to write full time. He likes travelling and visits many schools each year, talking and reading stories to children. He is the secutatry of his local Peace Movement group. Brother in the Land is his first book for Oxford University Press. He is married with two grown-up daughters and lives in Bradford.

Author description taken from Brother in the Land.

Reviews

[Gyula Papp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Remember reading this when I was very little so had to source a copy, Absolute belter of a childrens book about the dangers of cigarettes. Only smoking that haze from now on!