Michael salmon biography

I'm delighted to welcome one of Australia's favourite children's authors and illustrators, Michael Salmon, to Books for Little Hands.

You started your career entertaining children in a marionette troupe called, The Tintookies.

What was this experience like?

Fantastic, it was a quickly served apprenticeship into the enchanting world of children's professional entertainment. Engaged originally as a stage manager, I then spent several years as a set designer then became the Company's Artistic Director (1968 - 1976).

When did you make the transition into writing and illustrating children's books?

It was a very amateur, self-published book that started it all back in 1972.

'The Monster that ate Canberra' was released out and tickled funny-bones in the ACT. The monster himself, 'Alexander Bunyip', was indeed the Public Service thinly veiled, couched in a children's book format (vague social commentary).

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