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International Author for Children and Adults
Mimi Thebo is a writer for young people and adults. She is also Senior Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
Mimi began writing seriously after doing an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa. Since then, she has had six books published in six years and has completed her PhD in Creative Writing. One of Mimi's children's books, Wipe Out, was made into a film by the BBC and won a BAFTA for the adaptation by Barbara Cox. She has had many stories and poems published and anthologised and her stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four, published in seven languages, and illustrated in light against the Shell Building on London's South Bank.
Mimi's hometown is Lawrence, Kansas, but she now lives in a small market town between Bath and Bristol in Somerset, England. Home is a tiny stone terrace house with her husband of 23 years, Andy Wadsworth, their daughter Libby Jo and their cat Dotty. Mimi likes to commute to university on her electric bicycle and shop every week at the Bath Farmer's Market for wonderful fresh produce from the farmers of South West England.
In this website, you will find information about Mimi, Mimi's publications, her blog 'And Another Thing', her teaching philosophy and many other features.
Mimi is represented by MBA Literary Agents in London.
'A love song to small towns and the people who live there.' Diane Hammond, author of Homesick Creek
'Beneath Thebo's frolicking, feel-good tale lies sharp social commentary.' Booklist
'Thebo is a skilled storyteller.' Publishers Weekly
Welcome to Eudora was published in 2007 by Random House Ballantine in the USA. It is a charming tale of love, witchcraft and corporate abandonment set in a small MidWestern town. Click here to read some of Mimi's thoughts and the latest news about Welcome to Eudora. Click here to buy Welcome to Eudora.
'We are the only beings we know in the whole universe who can laugh... I think we should do a lot more of it. It's awfully hard to shoot at someone when you're laughing like a fool.'
Published 2006 by Walker Books in the UK, Drawing Together is a set of three linked stories for 5-7 year old confident readers.
When Lucy comes to her new school, she doesn't know anybody, except the horrible Harriet. For a while, she is very lonely. But Lucy is good at drawing and through her art she makes the kind of friends everybody wants. This is a story of marginalisation and otherness for young readers. It has been translated into Spanish and distributed in the USA for Spanish-speaking children.
Jess Meserve's fantastic illustrations bring this story of imagination, difference and friendship to life on the page.
Click here to find out more about Drawing Together. Click here to buy Drawing Together.
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