Andy Griffiths is the author of over twenty books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and creative writing textbooks. Andy is passionate about inspiring a love of books and reading in his young readers, and this passion drives his work as an ambassador with The Indigenous Literacy Foundation, an initiative of the Australian Publishing Industry to provide books and literacy resources to remote Indigenous communities around Australia. Andy regularly participates in field trips to remote areas of New South Wales, The Northern Territory and Western Australia to run writing workshops with Indigenous children and to help facilitate the Foundation's work.