The Shadow Boy

John Summons

JOHN SUMMONS has been writing stories and plays for adults and children for over thirty years. His children's novels include Adventure at Whaler's Bay, My Dad the Duck and The Shadow Boy. As a playwright he has had plays produced by a number of Sydney's leading theatres and was playwright-in-residence at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre. He has been a high school teacher of English, ESL, history and drama and a lecturer in a course for playwrights at Sydney's Institute of Technology. His publishers include Cambridge University Press (UK), The Dramatic Publishing Company (USA) and Currency Press (Australia). He is a member of the Australian Writers' Guild. He also has an interest in e-learning and software development. In 2000 he authored and programmed an interactive CD "Teacher's P.E.T." for the Australian Commonwealth and New South Wales governments to help students with literacy problems.