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(Left) Ursula Dubosarsky, Ruth Starke and Mark Carthew at the Speech Pathology Book of Year Awards, Canberra. (Right) Marks reads from The Gobbling Tree…

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!
Machino Supremo! - Front Cover

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

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


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

COMING SOON… Witches Britches, Itches and twitches!

Witches Britches
Images © Mike Spoor.

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! Teacher Created Resources USA 2012
Vroom, Vroom! Teacher Created Resources USA 2012

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

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Listen to Skinnamarink!

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Can You Keep a Secret? is a CBCA Early Childhood Notable Book 2009 and is now also available with a bonus FREE music CD of timeless songs to share and treasure! Be quick! *** Click here for the special ORDER form ***
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  • New MARK CARTHEW poster available from SYBA SIGNS!

  • UK cartoonist & children's illustrator Mike Spoor is visiting Australia in March & April 2011 (For bookings and further details please contact Mark direct on , or contact Helen Bain @ SPEAKERS INK, Phone: 1300-979-465

 

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Knock Knock.

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Doctor.

Doctor who?

Dr Carthew, that's who!

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



Upcoming events…

2011

The Big Read
April 5-8: Storylines: All Saints Literature Festival WA

April 10: The Big Read - Ballarat

Term 2 2011: 1April / May (TBC) selected art from Witches Britches Itches and Twitches on display at Dromkeen

July 4-8: 2011 International Research Society for Children's Literature Congress, Brisbane, Australia

The 20th Biennial Congress of IRSCL will be held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Theme: 'Fear and Safety in Children's Literature'

August 20- 26: Children’s Book Week

October 26: National Children's Week Craigieburn Library

November 9: Bath Spa University UK, MA writing Presentation

November 11: National Association of Writer's in Education (NAWE), National Conference Northhampton

November 12: IBBY /NCRCL MA Poetry Conference University of Roehampton, UK

Mark and illustrator Mini Goss at Federation Square, Melbourne

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