Stephen Stanley

Stephen Stanley is an Australian author/illustrator, mainly of puzzle type books for children, who was born at an early age in Liverpool in England, coming to Australia with his parents when he was 16.

Stephen began sending cartoons to newspapers when he was ten years old, initially worked as a signwriter then began a career as a newspaper cartoonist.

His first book was PUZZLE PLANETS, followed by PUZZLE BODY, PUZZLE WORLDS, PUZZLE KINGDOMS, PUZZLE ANIMALS and PUZZLE HEROES, published in Australia by Scholastic. These are now out of print, but due to their ongoing popularity Stephen has recently begun to put slightly smaller and less polished versions up on LULU.COM (as STEPHEN STANLEY'S PUZZLE BODY etc) although soon there will be a 'proper' reprinting- hopefully by the middle of 2018.

Stephen has had published about 80 books so far. Some have been published by DOVER in New York (HIDDEN PICTURE CHALLENGE, CITY OF LOST MAZES, THE HAUNTED MAZE etc). He puts a lot of books up on the LULU.COM website.