Since his 1983 debut with Puddleman, one of Canada’s most perennially popular picture books, Ted Staunton has been entertaining readers of all ages with his funny and perceptive stories of childhood and family life.

His many other books include Simon’s Surprise, the Morgan stories for grades 2-4 readers, the Dreadful Truth series of humorous looks at Canadian history, the Junior novel Hope Springs a Leak, and its YA sequel, Sounding Off.

Hope Springs was short-listed for both the Ontario Silver Birch and Nova Scotia Hackmatack awards, and most of his books have been Canadian Children’s Book Centre "Our Choice" publications.

This year sees the publication of Music By Morgan and Acting Up, the YA novel that completes the Hope Springs trilogy.

Trained as a teacher, Ted is also a speaker, performer, and workshop leader in venues across Canada. He has appeared before the International Reading Association, the Canadian Booksellers Association, Reading For the Love Of It, the Harbourfront International Children’s Festival, and on numerous Canada Council and National Children’s Book Festival Week tours. In May 2011 Ted will tour the Lower Mainland of B.C. for the next Festival Week, as well as appear at Booktopia in Vancouver. This spring also finds him at Boys Read To Succeed in Hamilton, ON, and Northwords in Yellowknife, NWT . He has appeared on radio and television and in countless schools and libraries all over Canada.

Ted’s work in schools led him to develop the workshop series Building Books and The Stories CD for students in the primary/junior grades and up. He has conducted the workshops many times and in 1999 he received an Ontario Arts Council grant for this work, which has also led to numerous presentations to teachers. As well, he currently teaches Writing for Children courses at George Brown College and the Haliburton School of the Arts and through CODE Canada, leads workshops for writers in Ethiopia 

When not writing, Ted likes to perform with the MAPLE LEAF CHAMPIONS JUG BAND. (He often brings his guitar and banjo to school presentations as well.) He also enjoys running, reading and listening to music.

Ted is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada, CANSCAIP, The Canadian Children’s Book Centre and SOCAN. He and his family live in Port Hope, Ontario.