After growing up in Australia, Prue Mason travelled Australia and the world as a flight attendant on a private airplane with her husband, a professional pilot. They lived in Canada for three years then the Gulf region of the Middle East for 12 years.

While in the Middle East, she worked as a writer for a children's newspaper that was distributed throughout the region. Prue wrote numerous articles, stories and had a counselling column where she answered problems from the mainly Indian, Pakistani, and Arab teenagers that ranged from how to prevent pimples to how to get out of an arranged marriage. As a CELTA trained teacher Prue also taught English as a foreign language to Arabic speakers.

Her first book for children, Camel Rider, is a best selling, award winning novel, based on her experience of life in the multicultural city of Dubai in the 1990s.

In 2005, Camel Rider won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and was a CBC Notable Book for Younger Readers.

Prue now works as a science and technology editor for a children's magazine in Australia. She writes articles for a children's magazine in Dubai, U.A.E. and Australia. She lives in Queensland, Australia.

Read the author spotlight with Prue Mason.

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