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Ursula Jones: children's author & actress

sister of Diana Wynne Jones

reader of some DWJ books on tape
co-writer of children's novel "completed by Ursula Jones"
Illustrators
i172291, three interiors
Russell Ayto at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Ursula Jones

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Ursula Jones is a British actress and a children's writer best known for The Witch's Children series of picture books (2001–2008). During the spring of 2013 she completed a children's fantasy novel begun by her sister Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011): The Islands of Chaldea, published by HarperCollins a year later.[1]

Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, and then worked in a weekly rep theatre company. Some time later she joined the Unicorn Theatre for Children (established 1947)[1] where she wrote many of the plays.[2] One of her street shows, "Monkey Puzzle, was commissioned as the British contribution to a European Festival of Theatre for Young People."[2] As an actress she has worked with "my favourite genius, Alan Ayckbourn", and for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.[2]

Jones was scriptwriter for the BBC TV series Greenclaws (1988/89), and some of her picture book stories "grew out of" that.[2][3]

The Catchpole Agency is her literary agent.[2]

1998 film Ever After, as Isabella, 1:40 clip at TV Guide http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ursula-jones/275979

Books

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Key
(Publisher, Year) --UK edition
link without publ --only US data found


"My picture books grew out of two T.V. series for younger viewers, Greenclaws, which the BBC asked me to script." http://ursulajones.co.uk/about.html



ISFDB http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1462988
US edition, Star Turn (Inside Pocket, 2012) 367pp http://worldcat.org/oclc/779261394 [clarification needed] ages 12–14 Kirkus says (and pans)
ISFDB http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1680205

References

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  1. ^ a b Flood, Alison (24 June 2013). "Diana Wynne Jones's final book completed by sister". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-04-25. The headline is a poor match for the content which closes, 'Jones said there were also "other things were coming to light" among her sister's papers. "She left behind a mass of stuff", she said.'
  2. ^ a b c d e "About me". Ursula Jones. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  3. ^ Greenclaws at IMDb. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  4. ^ "Shortlists for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awarded in 2002". Press release 2002. CILIP. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  5. ^ "Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2008". Booktrust (booktrust.org.uk). Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  6. ^ "The Princess Who Had No Kingdom". Ursula Jones (ursulajones.co.uk). Retrieved 2014-04-25.
Citations – websites
  • Ursula Jones: children's author & actress. Ursula Jones (ursulajones.co.uk). Retrieved 2014-04-25.
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IMDb lists one 2003 TV movie; two feature films 1998 and 1999; TV 1985 to 1995
"She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to music." music?
  1. 2003-04-01 The Witch's Children (Holt, 2003-04-01) picture book 6-8 (good) [5]
  2. 2012-11-15 The Lost King [first in a trilogy she says] (Inside Pocket, 2012-12-01) fantasy 11-14 (STARRED) [6]
  3. 2013-01-01 Star Turn (Inside Pocket, 2013-02-01) historical fiction 12-14, 1936 (poor) [7] --US ed. of Youngstars?
  4. 2014-01-01 Beauty and the Beast (Whitman, 2014-03-01) picture book/fairy tale 5-8 (mediocre) [8]
  5. 2014-02-15 Islands of Chaldea (Greenwillow, 2014-04-22) fantasy 10-13 (good) [9]

(reviewed as by Diana Wynne Jones)

--none of the authorities evidently identifies works by other writers

--LC blurb fits but four works (3rd to 6th as listed) are by other writers; NL is a mix too