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Andrew Marlton Andrew Marlton i(A123683 works by) (a.k.a. First Dog on the Moon)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Cartoonist and illustrator. Marlton was a cartoonist, known as First Dog on the Moon, for the online news site Crikey.

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y separately published work icon The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2020 20053373 2020 single work children's fiction graphic novel children's

'Greta Thunberg meets Homer Simpson* in this hilarious, illustrated and environmentally-friendly adventure from the country's enormously popular and only marsupial Walkley award-winning cartoonist. (*They don't really meet. This is just a saying.)

'Meet our superheroes:
- Binky aka The Monotreme!
- Norman, once bitten by a radioactive croissant and now Pastry Person!
- Letitia, an occasionally bossy science-wombat and genius inventor!

'Together, they are the EnviroTeens and they are about to get very, very angry! Singleuse Plastic Brendan may have an evil plan to destroy all the world's turtles, but there is something even more evil going on ... Climate change! The EnviroTeens will do anything to stop this impending disaster. But to really fix the planet, will they have to rid the world of all the adults who started it all?

'A comic graphic novel about a group of fast-talking and fast-thinking climate activists who are determined to clean the planet and clear the air. A proportion of the publishers' profits will be donated to School Strike 4 Climate Australia.' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Minister for the Arts' Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children
2021 shortlisted The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature Fiction
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