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The '''''Doctor Who'' photo novelisations''' are a series of prose adaptations of select episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.  
The '''''Doctor Who'' photo novelisations''' were a series of prose adaptations of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes, published by [[Pearson]]. Like the series of [[The Sarah Jane Adventures photo novelisations|''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' photo novelisations]] they followed, they contained minimal text descriptions alongside photos from the epiwere part of a school reading programme that taught children how to read. All ''Doctor Who'' photo novelisations were suitable for fluent plus readers. They only had a few text and a lot of photos, which illustrated the text.


The books carry the BBC logo but are published by [[Pearson]], not [[BBC Books]]. All novelisations are adaptions from series five of ''Doctor Who''.  
They were released in three groups. The first set of four, released in [[2012 (releases)|2012]], was based on episodes from ''Doctor Who'' [[series 5 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 5]]; two were written by [[Trevor Baxendale]], who had previously composed the SJA novelisations, and two were written by [[Peter Gutierrez]], whose books contained much less text than Baxendale's.


They are part of a school reading programm that teaches children how to read. All ''Doctor photo novelisations'' are suitable for fluent plus readers. They only have a few text and a lot of photos which illustrate the text.
The next set of three were released in [[2018 (releases)|2018]]. Notably, these novelisations were attributed to the actual authors of the [[series 8 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 8]] episodes on which they were based. A final batch of three novelisations based on [[series 9 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 9]] were released two and a half months later.
 
Two of the novelisations were written by [[Trevor Baxendale]] and the other two were written by [[Peter Gutierrez]]. Peter Gutierrez's photo novels have less text than Trevor Baxendale's photo novels and are more like a photo comic. All Doctor Who photo novelisations are about the [[Eleventh Doctor]].
 
Next to the ''Doctor Who photo novelisations'', four similar ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures photo novelisations]]'' were published two years before the ''Doctor Who novelisations''. As of early 2015, these are the only similar photo novelisations that are offered.


== Releases ==
== Releases ==
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|[[Peter Gutierrez]]
|[[Peter Gutierrez]]
|''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]''
|''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]''
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|5
|''[[Robot of Sherwood (novelisation)|Robot of Sherwood]]''
|[[Mark Gatiss]]
|''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]''
|rowspan=3|[[29 May (releases)|29 May]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
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|''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (novelisation)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Jamie Mathieson]]
|''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]''
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|7
|''[[Flatline (novelisation)|Flatline]]''
|''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]''
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|8
|''[[The Girl Who Died (novelisation)|The Girl Who Died]]''
|[[Jane Rollason]]
|''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]''
|rowspan=3|[[16 August (releases)|16 August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
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|9
|''[[The Woman Who Lived (novelisation)|The Woman Who Lived]]''
|[[Chris Rice]]
|''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]''
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|10
|''[[Face the Raven (novelisation)|Face the Raven]]''
|[[Nancy Taylor]]
|''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]''
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|}


== Cover gallery ==
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" caption="">
TheEleventhHour89.jpg|''[[The Eleventh Hour (novelisation)|The Eleventh Hour]]''
VictoryoftheDaleks89.jpg|''[[Victory of the Daleks (novelisation)|Victory of the Daleks]]''
The Time of the Angels89.jpg|''[[The Time of Angels (novelisation)|The Time of Angels]]''
TheLodger89.jpg|''[[The Lodger (novelisation)|The Lodger]]''
Robot of Sherwood (novelisation).jpg|''[[Robot of Sherwood (novelisation)|Robot of Sherwood]]''
Mummy on the Orient Express (novelisation).jpg|''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (novelisation)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]''
Flatline (novelisation).jpg|''[[Flatline (novelisation)|Flatline]]''
The Girl Who Died (novelisation).jpg|''[[The Girl Who Died (novelisation)|The Girl Who Died]]''
The Woman Who Lived (novelisation).jpg|''[[The Woman Who Lived (novelisation)|The Woman Who Lived]]''
Face the Raven (novelisation).jpg|''[[Face the Raven (novelisation)|Face the Raven]]''
</gallery>
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The Doctor Who photo novelisations were a series of prose adaptations of Doctor Who episodes, published by Pearson. Like the series of The Sarah Jane Adventures photo novelisations they followed, they contained minimal text descriptions alongside photos from the epiwere part of a school reading programme that taught children how to read. All Doctor Who photo novelisations were suitable for fluent plus readers. They only had a few text and a lot of photos, which illustrated the text.

They were released in three groups. The first set of four, released in 2012, was based on episodes from Doctor Who series 5; two were written by Trevor Baxendale, who had previously composed the SJA novelisations, and two were written by Peter Gutierrez, whose books contained much less text than Baxendale's.

The next set of three were released in 2018. Notably, these novelisations were attributed to the actual authors of the series 8 episodes on which they were based. A final batch of three novelisations based on series 9 were released two and a half months later.

Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Based on Published
1 The Eleventh Hour Trevor Baxendale The Eleventh Hour 16 February 2012
2 Victory of the Daleks Peter Gutierrez Victory of the Daleks
3 The Time of Angels Trevor Baxendale The Time of Angels
4 The Lodger Peter Gutierrez The Lodger
5 Robot of Sherwood Mark Gatiss Robot of Sherwood 29 May 2018
6 Mummy on the Orient Express Jamie Mathieson Mummy on the Orient Express
7 Flatline Flatline
8 The Girl Who Died Jane Rollason The Girl Who Died 16 August 2018
9 The Woman Who Lived Chris Rice The Woman Who Lived
10 Face the Raven Nancy Taylor Face the Raven

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]