Andy Griffiths is Australia’s most popular children’s writer. He is the author of over 20 books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and plays.
Andy is best known as the author of the much-loved Just! series and The Day My Bum Went Psycho. In 2008 Andy became the first Australian author to win six children’s choice awards in one year for Just Shocking!, smashing his previous record of 4 awards for The Bad Book in 2005.
Over the past 15 years Andy’s books have been New York Times bestsellers, won over 50 children’s choice awards, been adapted as a television cartoon series and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.
Andy is an ambassador with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and regularly participates in field trips to remote areas to run writing workshops with Indigenous children. In September 2011 The Naked Boy & The Crocodile will be published with all proceeds going to the ILF. This book brings together 13 wonderful stories and illustrations created by children during these workshops.
