Inside Grandad (11 page)

The big hospital in Aberdeen is called the Royal Aberdeen Hospital, but they're busy people at the RAH and I didn't like to bother them with a mass of questions about exactly how they do things there, so I've made that part up and changed the name. Even so, there was a lot of medical stuff I didn't know and couldn't find in books, so I'm enormously grateful to Lucy Curtice for helping me out with that.

Otherwise everything in and around Stonehaven is as real as I could make it. Two of my grandsons live there, and they're sure to let me know if I've got anything wrong.

PETER DICKINSON is the author of many books for adults and young readers and has won numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal (twice), the
Guardian
Award, and the Whitbread Award (also twice). His novel
Eva
was a
Boston Globe-Horn Book
Fiction Honor Book.
Eva
was also selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, as were his novels AK and A
Bone from a Dry Sea. The Lion Tamer's Daughter and Other Stories
was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by
School Library Journal. The Ropemaker
was selected as a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. His most recent book was
The Tears of the Salamander.
He has four grown children and lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, the writer Robin McKinley.

Published by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
a division of Random House, Inc., New York

Text copyright © 2004 by Peter Dickinson
Illustrations copyright © 2004 by David Johnson

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June 2005

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