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“I love the craft of working intricately to wind together meanings, sounds and rhythms that make a poem. It's like making jewellery or doing fine embroidery with language.”
Tony Mitton was born in Tripoli, North Africa and spent his childhood in Africa, Germany and Hong Kong. He completed a BA in English at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. After graduation, he trained as an English teacher, but went on to work instead as a primary school teacher. He has now given up teaching to concentrate entirely on being a children's poet and storywriter.
Tony lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. He gives performances as a children's poet and picture-book writer in primary schools, libraries and at literary festivals.
He is a prolific writer of poems, stories and picture books for children. His raps series (rhymes which retell well-known stories and myths in a highly original way) are popular with adults and children alike. His Royal Raps won the 1997 Nottinghamshire Libraries/Dillons Children's Book Award. He has been interested in poetry, song and stories from an early age and wrote poetry consistently from his teens onwards. However, he only began writing for children around the age of 40.
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