Mark Carthew
Author of Poetry
based in VIC
Dr Mark Carthew is an award-winning Australian children’s author, teacher, poet and musician well known for his books and series celebrating language, humour and wordplay.
Mark’s picture books include Five Little Owls and The Gobbling Tree, winner of Speech Pathology Australia’s 2009 Book of the Year. His anthology, Can You Keep a Secret? Timeless rhymes to share and treasure was a CBCA Notable Book.
Mark has extensive experience in trade and education editing and publishing with numerous books, series, anthologies, poems and songs published with Australian and international publishers: see http://markcarthew.com.au/books/. Mark is a former Board Member of Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellow. Mark has a PhD in Writing from Swinburne University and he was the inaugural Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellow at UniSA. Mark’s recent books include The Moose is Loose! illustrated by Matt Stanton, The Great Zoo Hullabaloo! illustrated by Anil Tortop and the Marvin & Marigold series ill. by Simon Prescott (UK).
2020 saw the release of The Dingle, Dangle Jungle ill. by Dave Atze and his picture book, The Thing That Goes Ping! illustrated by Shane McG, won the 2021 Speech Pathology Australia Book of The Year Award.
