Mark Roper

Mark Roper is the author of the Survival Guide for Kids series, where chaos meets comedy and every disaster is just one good tip (or snack) away from being survivable. Whether it’s surviving camping meltdowns, school party glitter explosions, or sibling sabotage over candy trades, Mark’s books help kids laugh through life’s most ridiculous challenges.

A lifelong fan of doodles, costumes, and emergency snack planning, Mark writes with one mission: to make kids feel seen, heard, and hilariously prepared. He believes humor is the ultimate survival skill.

When he’s not writing, Mark can be found collecting bizarre holiday trivia, eating peanut butter cups “for research,” or testing how many erasers fit in a pencil case. (Answer: too many.)

He lives somewhere between logic and laughter with his family in Arizona