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 novel, one of the children was called Jemima, after the daughter of his previous employer, Hugo Pitman; the advice Pott gave to his children also echoed that of Fleming: "Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life." In May 1961, Fleming sent his publisher the manuscripts for the first two volumes of "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang". To illustrate the book, Fleming suggested the "Daily Mail" cartoonist Trog—the pseudonym of Wally Fawkes—as he admired the artist's work. While undertaking the preliminary drawings for the book, Trog tried to make the fudge recipe included in the book and