Robert Hull's High Tide (Salt, 2010) is his third collection of poems for children. It follows Stargrazer (Hodder, 1997), which was short-listed for the Signal Poetry Prize in 1998, and Everest and Chips, (Oxford University Press, 2002), short-listed for the CLPE prize. His fifty or so titles for children include collections of myths and folk-tales, one of which, West African Stories (Wayland) was short-listed for the 1999 Kurt Maschler Award, as well as anthologies of poetry and three books for teachers: The Language Gap (Methuen, 1985), Behind the Poem (Routledge, 1988), described in Books for Keeps as 'one of the best books about children, teaching and writing to appear for a long time', and the recent Poetry - from Reading to Writing - A Classroom Guide for 7-11 year olds (Routledge, 2009). He regularly visits schools to run writing workshops, and is a regular contributor to educational magazines.