Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths was born in Melbourne, Australia and is one of that country’s most popular children’s authors. He has two younger sisters and began his writing career aged six and was constantly filling up exercise books with stories, jokes cartoons, newspaper clippings, ticket stubs and anything else that interested him .His favourite children’s authors are Lewis Carroll, Enid Blyton and Dr Seuss.

He and illustrator Terry Denton have collaborated on more than 33 bestselling books since their first title, Just Tricking, was published in 1997.

In Australia, Andy and Terry’s books have sold over 10 million copies, won 80 children’s choice awards and 10 Australian Book Industry Awards—including Book of the Year for The 52-Storey Treehouse in 2015.

Their much-loved Treehouse Series has been embraced by children around the world and is now published in more than 35 countries. Five of the books in the series have been adapted for the stage and have all had sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera house, as well as highly successful seasons in the Netherlands, New Zealand and America.

Andy is a passionate advocate for literacy and in 2015 was awarded the Dromkeen Medal (a literary prize awarded annually by the Courtney Oldmeadow Children’s Literature Foundation for those who have advanced children’s literature in Australia)

He is also an ambassador for both The Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the Pyjama Foundation.

He lives with his wife Jill (who also happens to be his editor), their two daughters and a one-eyed cat called Ruby.