"One of the very best authors... for both schools and festival events"

Welcome to the actual official proper John Dougherty website!

John's the award-winning author of lots of amazing books including:

• Mark & Shark: Detectiving & Stuff
• the Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face series
• There's a Pig Up My Nose
• Zeus on the Loose
• Dinosaurs & Dinner-Ladies​

2018 winner for
​There's a Pig Up My Nose!

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and loads more. On this site you can find out about his books, his poems, his songs, and all kinds of other things including how to book one of his fantastic school visits!

"In an age where all-things electronic are vying for children's attention, John Dougherty is a wonderful ambassador for books" - PHILIP ARDAGH

John performing at Cornwall's wonderful Eden Project in 2017

Some of the things you'll find on this site:

•  WRITING - find out about John's books, poems & songs

•  SCHOOL VISITS - what John does when he visits schools, and how to get him to come to yours!

 

•  CONTACT - all the different ways you can get in touch with John

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•  MORE... - all the stuff that wouldn't fit on the other pages, including a page where you can buy copies of John's books, information about the fabulous Patron of Reading scheme, why he loves libraries, and more!

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Image © Becky Buckle

By the way - on this site, if you see some words in this shade of blue, it means they've got a link in them...

John is proud to be a Patron of Reading...

...and a supporter of Beanstalk.

Just about everything on this site is © either me or somebody else. Things that are © somebody else include:

• all illustrations from the Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face books, which are © the jolly clever & talented Mr David Tazzyman​
  
• all illustrations from There's a Pig Up My Nose, which are © the fabulous Laura Hughes
• all illustrations from Mark & Shark: Detecting & Stuff, which are © the amazing Katie Abey
• all illustrations from the Zeus books, the Jack Slater books, and Niteracy Hour, © Georgien Overwater   
• all other illustrations & photos © whoever did the drawing or took the photo, which means YOU CAN'T USE THEM unless you're the photographer or illustrator or have their permission, ok?!? I'll probably put copyright credits on other pages but if I forget, it doesn't mean you can swipe stuff that doesn't belong to you.