<br><br>Mark Lang grew up in Somerset in the South West of the United Kingdom and has happy memories of long hot summers of doing the normal things kids do. A childhood of riding bikes, climbing trees, building camps and swapping football stickers.<br><br>Mark now lives in Central Italy to the North East of Rome. <br>He worked for a world leading University in Italy which inspired him to start writing. Mark writes in English and Italian and has released a number of his titles in bilingual versions. <br>The Paper Dog Bob series was written about Bob a family Golden Retriever. <br>This fun-loving canine is the inspiration for his children's picture books about Bob and a flurry of animal friends and their whimsical adventures.<br><br>He is currently working on new adventures for Paper Dog Bob and his other popular series, The Periodicals and Rebus.<br><br>