Mike Thaler Biography

Mike Thaler started his professional career drawing cartoons for adults. A children's book editor saw one of his cartoon stories in a national magazine and encouraged Mike to try writing for children. His first attempt met with success and The Magic Boy was published in 1961. Mike has produced over 200 published books and is known as America's Riddle King. He has also been called The Court Jester of Children's Literature. Mike has produced many well known and loved characters in children's literature. He was the creator of The Letterman for the PBS Electric Company series. Elementary teachers read about Mrs. Green from The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and the rest of the Lagoon faculty in his expanding book series with Scholastic publishers. Bubba and Bumpo from the The Bully Brothers books and some of his retold fairy tales like Cinderella Bigfoot have won numerous Children's Choice awards. His new series Tales from the Back Pew (Zondervan) was released in January 2009.

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