Author Information

Highly acclaimed author/illustrator Mark Wilson’s many picture books include The Penguin Shore (a CBCA Notable Book in 1996), The Castaways of the Charles Eaton, Yellow-eye (winner of the Wilderness Society Award in 2002), the Extinction Series: I Saw Nothing: the Extinction of the Thylacine (a CBCA Notable Book in 2004); I Said Nothing: the Extinction of the Paradise Parrot; and I Did Nothing: the Extinction of the Gastric Brooding Frog and The Last Tree (2006). The Extinction Series also won a Wilderness Society Award and a Whitley Award in 2004, and The Last Tree won a Whitley Award in 2007. Mark lives in Frankston, Victoria.

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Teachers Guide

The following are only a few of the stimulus points created by Wilson’s text and illustrations. Further suggestions for activities... More

Angel of Kokoda

Angel of Kokoda, a fiction picture book written by Mark Wilson. A Papua New Guinean boy helps a young soldier as his village is torn apart by World War II. Evocatively illustrated by Mark Wilson
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About The Author

Highly acclaimed author/illustrator Mark Wilson’s many picture books include The Penguin Shore (a CBCA Notable Book in 1996), The Castaways of the Charles Eaton... More