Childhood
Colin was born in Wallsend-upon-Tyne in Northumberland, UK in 1951, the son of a shipyard worker and a school dinner lady. As a child, there was little indication that he would become one of Britain's leading children's authors-illustrators. There were no books at all in his parents’ home, but there were always comics, his formative literature, and their slapstick humour has been a lasting influence.
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