Tony Mitton
| Titles: | A Very Curious Bear, All Afloat on Noah's Boat, Amazing Animals: Super Safari, Come to Tea on Planet Zum-Zee, Famer Joe and the Music Show, Fluff and Other Stuff, Jolly Olly Octopus, My Hat and all That, Perky Little Penguins, Plum, Sir Laughalot, The Jungle Run, The Somethingosaur, The Storytellers Secrets |
| Category: | Children's |
| Agent: | Caroline Walsh |
| Nicky Lund |
Tony Mitton spent much of his early childhood abroad before going to a state boarding grammar school. He went on to do a degree in English at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. After graduation he trained as an English teacher, but went on to work instead as a primary school teacher.
In his mid thirties he became a father and began to specialise in mainstream special needs teaching, working with literacy and behaviour issues.
He wrote poetry consistently from his teens onwards. However, he only began writing for children around the age of 40. His first efforts in this new realm were for his own children, but the pleasure of this kind of writing soon prompted him to work at it and seek publication.
His first collection of poems, Plum, was published in 1998 and has been followed by The Red And White Spotted Hankerchief (winner of the Smarties Silver Medal), PIP (a Poetry Book Choice) and Fluff And Other Stuff. Tony has also written many picture book texts including Down By The Cool Of The Pool and the Amazing Machines series as well as ten books of Rap Rhymes, humorous versions of well-known traditional stories. This latest picture book is The Somethingosaur, illustrated by Russel Ayto, to be pubvlished by HarperCollins in June 2012.
He now writes full-time, as well as giving performances of his work in schools and libraries and at festivals. He lives in Cambridge.
