Frank Cottrell-Boyce "Framed", he made the shortlist for both the Carnegie and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. He adapted it as a screenplay for a 2009 BBC television film. He made the Carnegie shortlist again for "Cosmic" (2008). In 2011, he was commissioned to write a sequel to the Ian Fleming children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was published in October 2011 as "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again" In addition to "Coronation Street", he wrote many episodes of the soap opera "Brookside", as well as its spin-off "Damon and Debbie". He wrote and staged his first original theatre production "Proper
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Monsieur Bon-Bon. Chitty arrives in time to prevent the gangsters from fleeing. The police arrive and the gangsters are taken away. As a reward Madame Bon-Bon shares the secret recipe of her world-famous fudge with the Potts, and the two families become good friends. Chitty flies the family away to parts unknown, and the book implies that the car has yet more secrets. By 1961, Fleming had published nine James Bond books. The most recent of these was "Thunderball", a novel Fleming initially published under his own name, but which was the subject of a legal action by its co-authors,