Andrew Fusek Peters
Andrew Fusek Peters is a poet and storyteller whose interest in folk tales was kindled when hearing about the history of his mother’s Czech family. His fascination with myths was fuelled by learning the didgeridoo and working with aboriginal storytellers, singers and dancers.
He is an experienced schools visitor and children’s author who loves to entertain with over 70 books published worldwide.
Books
Leaves Are Like Traffic Lights
Author: Andrew Fusek Peters
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Interest age: 7+
Reading age: 9+
Featuring turbo-charged trees, double agent forests and leaves that perform magic, this is a wide-ranging collection of fun, lyrical and thought-provoking poems.
Ravenwood
Author: Andrew Fusek Peters
Publisher: Chicken House
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 9+
Peters has dreamt up a surreal world which exists many centuries in the future, in the roots of the earth and many miles above it.
The Colour Thief
Author: Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters
Illustrator: Karin Littlewood
Publisher: Wayland
Interest age: 4-8
Reading age: 7+
Drawing on personal experiences of living in a family blighted by depression, this unusual, yet important, book may help youngsters to make sense of an illness they cannot see.