Mike Barfield
@TheMikeBarfield
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Award-winning children's book writer and Private Eye cartoonist, poet, performer. Enchanced DBS. Big in China, apparently.
North Yorkshire
Joined March 2010
Honoured and very excited to have The World's First Rollercoaster by me and Franzi Hollbacher shortlisted in the non-fiction category for today's Spark! Book Awards Big Final! You can watch along here from 1.45pm:
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Welcome to the Spark! School Book Awards channel, We are small charitable organisation looking to develop a lasting love of reading in all children across the country. At Spark! we want to build...
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RT @templarbooks: The World's First Rollercoaster: And Other Amazing Inventions by @TheMikeBarfield, illus. by Franzi Hollbacher, has been….
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Honoured to have The World's First Rollercoaster by me and Franzi Hollbacher shortlisted for the Spark Book Awards 2025. My author video 'live' from my workroom is available here: Huge thanks to everyone involved!.
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RT @clpe1: ✨ New blog post ✨. In today's blog post, @TheMikeBarfield shares his excitement and privilege around being invited to write a bo….
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RT @clpe1: Today we have an exciting chance to win a copy of 'Planet Earth: My Life So Far' by @TheMikeBarfield, illustrated by Jess Bradle….
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Brilliant work by everyone. Well done!.
Look at these fabulous books out today from agency authors! Congratulations, @lucymayrowland @TheMikeBarfield @JasonRohan1 and Ben Lerwill!
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Happy book birthday to The World's First Human Cannonball by me and Franzi Hollbacher. I'm signing copies at White Rose Bookcafe, Thirsk from 10am on Saturday, and Blue House Bookshop on Bootham, York from 2.30pm - launch a paper human cannonball and get a free fartwhistle!
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RT @joncowap: North #Yorkshire children’s author Mike Barfield talks about writing for young people and his latest book ‘The World’s First….
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RT @AnneClarkLit: Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training via @UKChange.
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Happy International Children's Book Day. I've been lucky enough to have many of my books published internationally, so a big thank you to all my readers around the globe, and to all my lovely co-ed publishers!.
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Not an April Fool, I promise - though I will be acting the fool in April. Come and see me and my fun family show at the Museum of Scotland at 11am on April 6th
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RT @templarbooks: We're absolutely ROARING with excitement! Check out this epic announcement👀🦕. .
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So excited and honoured to be doing four shows this weekend as part of Hull's amazing @colliderfest celebration of science. I'm at Hull History Centre on Sat, and Hull City Hall on Sun. Check the times and book at See you there!
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RT @litleics: Our fabulous #LitLeics25 student ambassadors are back in @LeicesterUnion to spread the word about Literary Leicester! 📚💙. PLU….
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Happy #worldbookday2025 everyone. Once again I shall be joining in the fun by dressing all day as my favourite living UK-based children's funny non-fiction author. The costume is so easy to source!.
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RT @sparkbookaward: Today our author spotlight features mad scientist @TheMikeBarfield on all the fascinating inventions in his Spark short….
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Very honoured to have been shortlisted for the @sparkbookaward along with brill illustrator Franzi Hollbacher for The World's First Rollercoaster from @templarbooks This video has me talking about it and a lovely view of the side of my garage (
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