Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton and Pan Macmillan Australia have teamed up to produce Terry’s Dumb Dot Story, a short-story book where all proceeds will be donated to children’s charities.
Retailing at two dollars per book in Australia and New Zealand, the full price of the book will be donated to various charities, including The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (of which Andy is a Lifetime Ambassador), Dymocks Children’s Charities, Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, Save the Children, as well as Oxfam and the Kids Can Charitable Trust in New Zealand. “We are very happy that all the money raised from our silly little book will be used to make a big difference to children in need,” says authors Griffiths and Denton.
Since the book was published in February this year, $141,613.27 has been raised in total, with every cent donated to the children’s charities. More than $84,500 was donated to The Indigenous Literary Foundation, $35,525.27 to Dymocks Children’s Charities, $6000 to Kids Can Charitable Trust and $10,826 to Oxfam New Zealand.
Pan Macmillan Australia are delighted to acknowledge that this has been made possible by the donation of content, time and services from Andy and Terry, Alliance Distribution Services and Opus Printing Group. They would also like to thank the retailers who have joined all of us to support children’s charities with a focus on literacy. This announcement coincides with the release of the latest installment in bestselling Treehouse series, The 104-Storey Treehouse. Andy and Terry are in the midst of a national tour, with sell out audiences of more than 1200 in Australia and New Zealand.
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