Photograph of Anthony HorowitzAnthony Horowitz is Up for Reading

Hi there,

My name is Anthony Horowitz. I'm the author of the Alex Rider series and I'm one of the many writers who are supporting Up for Reading

Children born with Down syndrome face many difficult challenges and anything we can do to help support these young people must be worthwhile.

So - find out how you can get involved with Up for Reading, which is a simple, straightforward and fun way to help.

Anthony Horowitz

Find out more about Anthony Horowitz

Award-winning children's author Michael Horowitz is supporting Up for Reading in a number of ways. In particular, he has donated the prize of a school visit to one lucky school.

Alex Rider - Point Blanc graphic novel cover illustration, copyright Walker Books Ltd, used with permissionAnthony Horowitz is a prolific and hugely successful writer. He is perhaps best known for his highly successful Alex Rider novels including Stormbreaker (also made into a feature film starring another Up for Reading supporter Damian Lewis as villain Yassen Gregorovich).

He has received numerous awards for the Alex Rider series including the Bookseller Association/Nielsen Author of the Year Award 2007 and Children's Book of the Year Award for the Alex Rider book Ark Angel at the 2006 Children's Book Award. In addition to the Alex Rider books, he has also written other children's books including Groosham Grange, the Diamond Brothers series and The Power of Five series.

Anthony also wrote the television series Foyle's War and has also written episodes of several popular TV crime series, including Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid, along various stage plays and film scripts.