Career

In 2001 Roy Apps was awarded a personal British Academy of Film and Television Arts for outstanding contributions to children's film and television Both of these dramas were made for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 by the award-winning independent production company Pier Productions. He is the author of 78 children's books

The Fang Gang series is published by Bloomsbury.

Charlie - Prince Of Wheels is published by the Oxford University Press. His popular How to Handle.. series has been relaunched as part of the Franklin Watts EDGE series.

He regularly visits schools to help young writers create books, plays, films, poetry, musical theatre and opera. He has been Writer-in-Residence at The Museum of Canterbury, OperaHouse Music Projects, the Aspire Trust, the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea and The National Gallery, London.

He is Patron Of Reading at two schools: Oakley School, Tunbridge Wells and Paddington Academy, West London.

Achievements

• He has written over a hundred scripts for British Broadcasting Corporation radio, including Fungus the Bogeyman, which won a Sony Award. In 1991, his novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won the Writers’ Guild Children’s Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. He has recently been commissioned to write four new titles for his sports series Dream to Win.