

Now a new film version is planned, as well as a stage musical version. My second, The Ghosts, written two years later, was a best-seller and was filmed as The Amazing Mr Blunden in 1972. I wrote my first children's novel in 1966. The African Queen with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart 'Every Time You Say Goodbye' by Ella Fitzgerald Her novel, The Amazing Mr Blunden, was runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. Antonia is well-known for such best-selling picture books as The Mousehole Cat (with Nicola Bailey) and Catkin (with J P Lynch). My Antonia Barber really knows about ballet - her daughter studied ballet from the age of three and attended the Royal Ballet School junior associate classes at Sadler's Wells.

FAVOURITE BOOK: Middlemarch by George Eliot FAVOURITE SONG: 'Every Time You Say Goodbye' by Ella Fitzgerald MOST TREASURED POSSESSION: Family Photographs FAVOURITE FILM: The African Queen with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart - When did you start writing? I wrote my first children's novel in 1966.

Antonia Barber really knows about ballet - her daughter studied ballet from the age of three and attended the Royal Ballet School junior associate classes at Sadler's Wells.
