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{{short description|British children's author}}
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| notableworks = ''[[The Magic Key]]''
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'''Roderick James Hunt''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} is a British children's author.
His most famous series of stories is ''[[The Magic Key]]'', which was first written as a part of the [[Oxford Reading Tree]] in 1985 and illustrated by [[Alex Brychta]] MBE. There were originally 30 stories, and there are now over 400.

==Education==
Hunt studied divinity and English at the [[University of Chester]] and was appointed a [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in [[2008 Birthday Honours|2008]] "for services to Education, particularly Children's Literacy".<ref name=alumni>{{cite web |url=http://www.chesteralumni.com/index.php?page_id=99 |title=Alumni Stories |publisher=[[University of Chester]] |accessdate=18 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101185714/http://www.chesteralumni.com/index.php?page_id=99 |archivedate=1 January 2012  }}</ref><ref name=GBR>United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |pages=18 |supp=1}}</ref>

==Career==
''[[The Magic Key]]'' books are used by over 80% of British primary schools to help children learn to read, in addition to schools in more than 120 other countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/pdf/era09/rod_and_alex_press_release.pdf |title=Series Creators of Oxford Reading Tree, Roderick Hunt MBE and Alex Brychta MBE, receive the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award in this year's Education Resources Awards |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |accessdate=18 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726010144/http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/pdf/era09/rod_and_alex_press_release.pdf |archivedate=26 July 2011  }}</ref> Along with Alex Brychta, who illustrates his stories, he was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award in the Education Resources Awards in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/2/era09.html |title=Roderick Hunt MBE and Alex Brychta winners of this years Outstanding Achievement Award |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=18 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813195639/http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/2/era09.html |archivedate=13 August 2009  }}</ref>

In addition to ''The Magic Key'', Hunt is also the author of the ''Read at Home'' and ''Wolf Hill'' series of stories, as well as many others.<ref name=alumni />

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