Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears Award-winning author by Anthony Horowitz (author)

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..

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1. bookaholic202
   on 7 March 2014

   People think action books are just for boys but I really enjoyed the Alex Rider series.

2. AngelofDeath
   on 7 March 2014

   This is a totally wonderful book. It has some sad moments, but the action is engaging.

3. Nashdasher
   on 8 March 2013

   I love this Alex Rider book. Full of suspense and action

4. ninjastickman
   on 5 March 2013

   Alex Rider armed with a pencil case full of gadgets is on a mission to nick the files of greenfields the genetic crops growers but there’s a bigger plot behind greenfields

   5out of 5

5. chloewhite33
   on 4 March 2013

   My favourite Alex Rider book. My favourite part was in the torture place in the jungle where a crocodile is at Alex’s feet.

6. barnred123
   on 3 March 2011

   Love this book! Love Horowitz!

7. Henry1
   on 22 January 2010

   it rools

   5out of 5