Denis Bond, (born 22 November 1946) is a British writer of children's books and television. His TV programmes include The Munch Bunch and Picme , and his books include Avenue, Pop Rivals and, for younger children, The Witch Who Loved To Make Children Cry.
Bond was trained in drama at the Rose Bruford College and acted on stage and TV. After a period of working as a teacher, he was commissioned to write 26 episodes for the ITV series Pipkins . He also wrote for the series Rainbow , Let's Pretend and The Munch Bunch.
Although Rainbow remains a cult classic, the Munch Bunch stands alone among the three for being written entirely by Bond. He had already begun writing a series of Munch Bunch books (launched under the pseudonym Giles Reed) a year previously.
His next publishing venture was a series of books about Dagon, a boy from space. These were published, like the Munch Bunch, by the Ipswich-based Studio Publications, but both ranges were terminated when a fire at Studio Publications destroyed all of the original artwork.
Dagon is also known as the original work of a Japanese anime television series Dagon in the Land of Weeds (Ikinari Dagon).
Bond had, however, already moved on by then. He had two novels published by Methuen but success really came when he began being published by Scholastic. His first book for the publishers was The Dragon Who Couldn't Help Breathing Fire (1990) and, by 1994, he was having books for teenagers published as well. These included three books for Scholastic's Point Romance series under the pseudonym Denise Colby, a clear reference to the US TV series Dynasty , as well as a feminisation of his own name, No 1, an in-depth look at the dark side of the pop music scene, and Avenue, about a soap opera.
Bond returned to the field of television with Picme an animated educational series written for the Irish broadcasters RTÉ. This has been nominated for a BAFTA.
As well as continuing to write, Denis Bond regularly conducts writing workshops at schools and libraries both in the UK and abroad.
Except where stated, all of the above titles are illustrated by Valeria Petrone.
David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series, Captain Underpants, and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins.
The Haunted Mask is the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps, the series of children's horror fiction novels created and written by R. L. Stine. The book follows Carly Beth, a girl who buys a Halloween mask from a store. After putting on the mask, she starts acting differently and discovers that the mask has become her face; she is unable to pull the mask off. R. L. Stine says he got the idea for the book from his son who had put on a Frankenstein mask he had trouble getting off.
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Munch is an English verb meaning 'to chew with a grinding, crunching sound' or 'to eat vigorously or with excitement', possibly deriving from the Old French verb mengier. Munch may also refer to:
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Lego Elves was a Lego product line produced by The Lego Group that was launched in 2015. It was accompanied by the Lego Elves animated television series and webisode series that began with a mini-movie titled Unite The Magic, which was released on the Lego YouTube channel, and on Netflix. The product line was based on the storyline of the animated series, which follows the adventures of a character named Emily Jones who travels to a magical land called Elvendale. The theme aimed to introduce a fantasy element to girl-focused Lego products. It was eventually discontinued by 2019.
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