Mike Dumbleton

Mike is an award-winning writer and a Literacy Consultant with eight titles selected as ‘Notable Books’ by the Children‘s Book Council of Australia. Other awards include Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year, Muddled-up Farm, 2004 and CBCA Honour Book, Cat, 2008. In 2005 Mike received the Federal Minister’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Improving Literacy, which recognised his work both as an educator and a writer over an extended period. In his spare time, Mike enjoys reading, travelling, trying to keep fit, listening to jazz and watching sport.