Jarvis has been shortlisted for numerous awards, and won the Lancashire Libraries Children’s Book of the Year Award. He suddenly thought that perhaps only one of them was a real squirrel and the other an imposter, and so the werling creatures were born. Jarvis came up with the story for Thorn Ogres of Hagwood while on a forest hike, when he heard a racket up in the trees and saw two squirrels chasing each other. His first book, The Depford Mice (1989), established Jarvis as a bestselling children’s author. One evening, while doodling, he began inventing names and stories for his drawings, and thus began his writing career. After a degree course in graphic design, he worked in television, making models and puppets. 1963) spent most of his school years in art rooms.
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