Andy Griffiths
Author's Comment: I've always loved writing ever since I was old enough to hold a pen. I was constantly filling up exercise books with stories, jokes, cartoons, newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, bubblegum cards...anything that came my way. I wrote funny stories to entertain my friends at school. These eventually turned into funny song lyrics which is how I ended up being in bands. It was all really good writing practice!
When I eventually became an English teacher I met a lot of students who thought books were boring and I started writing little stories to make them laugh and appreciate that reading can be a lot of fun. I started making photocopied collections of my stories and selling them at shops and markets around Melbourne. At the same time I was sending these self-published books to publishers. I received many rejections over a number of years but I kept trying, studying and practising and eventually someone said yes!
Nationality: Australian
Featured series by Andy Griffiths
Andy G Picture Books (Ages 5 and up)
Flat Cat and Big Fat Cow (Ages 5 and up)
Little Treehouse Stories (Ages 5 and up)
Bum (Butt) (Ages 7 and up)
Just (Ages 7 and up)
Bad (Ages 8 and up)
Schooling Around (Ages 8 and up)
Treehouse (Ages 8 and up)
Andy and Terry's World of Stupidity (Ages 9 and up)