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COMING SOON… Witches' Britches, Itches & Twitches!

Witches Britches

Images © Mike Spoor.

Mike Spoor (UK) & Mark Carthew (Aust) , All Saints Storylines Festival of Children' s Literature WA.

Click here to watch Jimmy Giggle & Hoot from ABC TV read The Gobbling Tree!

The Gobbling Tree

STOP PRESS!
The Gobbling Tree wins the 2009 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards! Details..

And more!
The Gobbling Tree No 1 in Wordpress Top 3!
We're Orff! - Front Cover

New picture book with Harper Collins Publishers / ABC Books 2013 (more soon!)
&
We're Orff! Music activities for Lower Primary Vol 1 Mark Carthew & Tamara O'Brien (Bushfire Press) 2012
Speak Up! Denise Ryan & Associates / Teacher Created Materials, Huntington Beach, CA, USA 2012
Vroom, Vroom! Denise Ryan & Associates / Teacher Created Materials, Huntington Beach, CA, USA 2012
Footprints on the Moon, Denise Ryan & Associates / Teacher Created Materials, Huntington Beach, CA, USA 2012

 

Machino Supremo! - Front Cover

STOP PRESS.. again!
Machino Supremo! Poems about machines by Janeen Brian & Mark Carthew, illustrated John Veeken (Celapene Press) - NOW AVAILABLE!

Click here for FREE teacher notes and activity sheets!

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Mark and Janeen Brian sing Spare Parts from Machino Supremo! at the Toolangi CJ Dennis Festival


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Mark’s RECENT interviews on Radio Waiheke Island NZ and ABC Adelaide 891 click here

EXCITING NEW RELEASE!
Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots by Mark Carthew & Illustrated by Mike Spoor.

Great NEW design & Hardback edition (IP Kidz) inc. visual puzzles. Find the hidden objects based on word ending sounds & the hidden newt and bandicoot playing a lute. Are you good enough?


Mike Spoor (UK) and Mark at Dromkeen

Can You Keep a Secret? Timeless rhymes to share and treasure…  

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Listen to Skinnamarink!

Click here to hear more songs from the CD!

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Can You Keep a Secret? is a CBCA Early Childhood Notable Book 2009
Currently ***OUT OF PRINT *** Watch this space for possible new edition
SYBA Signs - Mark Carthew Poster


  • New MARK CARTHEW poster available from SYBA SIGNS!

  • Mark and UK children's illustrator Mike Spoor are available for international school talks, workshops and festival events.
    For further details please contact Mark direct on , or contact Helen Bain @ SPEAKERS INK, Phone: 1300-979-465
  • Mark is a guest author on the first Kidz Book Club DVD OUT NOW!

    • Breaking News!
    Mark elected to Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Board of Directors

    The ASA is proud to announce that a new Board of Directors was elected in Brisbane at the AGM on Saturday 31 March. New and returning Board members are pictured below with ASA staff.

    Left to right: Mark Carthew, Steve Wimmer (General Manager), Sheryl Gwyther, Kate Jones, Tony Moore, Angelo Loukakis (Executive Director), Robyn Sheahan-Bright (Deputy Chair), Sophie Masson (Chair), Hazel Edwards, Brian Dibble, Judith Ridge, David Day (Treasurer), Lyn Spender
    Missing from photo: Chris Pash, Jeremy Fisher, Ann James

 

NEWS FLASH: Dr Who?

Knock Knock.

Who's there?

Doctor.

Doctor who?

Dr Carthew, that's who!

*Mark has recently been awarded his PhD from Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia.



Upcoming events…

National Year of Reading


2012

Feb 14 +: Mad Hatters Party: National Year of Reading Celebration - Various

Literature Local

April 12: Literature Local for kids – Literature Lunch 12.30 @ Ringwood library

May: Witches' Britches, Itches & Twitches! released

June 30 – July 1: 2012 International Conference of the Book, Barcelona, Spain.

July 2-4: Edulearn12 IATED Conference Barcelona, Spain

August 18, 19: 16th Early Childhood Conference of Performing Arts (ECCPA) Genazzano FCJ * Interactive sessions with composer Tamara O'Brien College

August 18 – 26: CBCA Children's Book Week

November 25-27: Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference, Deakin University Geelong.

Mark and illustrator Mini Goss at Federation Square, Melbourne

All content © Mark Carthew 2012