Mark is an award-winning children’s author, musician, educator and editor, and is well known for his books and series exploring wordplay.
His books have involved collaboration with some of the world’s leading authors and illustrators.
Mark’s The Gobbling Tree, illustrated by Susy Boyer, won the Speech Pathology Australia’s 2009 Book of the Year. The Moose is Loose!, is illustrated by Matt Stanton and published by HarperCollins/ABC Books.
talks and workshops
Mark presents interactive sessions for primary age levels as well as fun read aloud, musical story-time sessions for kinder and younger primary groups. Students have fun with stories, jokes, illustration styles, visual puns, puppets, songs, play-scripts, movement and gain insights into book creation & design.
Mark also conducts talks to parents about literacy learning, adult writing groups, conference panels and keynotes.