[1] He was educated at Woolverstone Hall School (1961–1968), before studying English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1969.

[1] In 1984, after a short gap, he resumed primary school teaching as a registered supply teacher for Cambridgeshire Education Authority.

[2] Tony Mitton won the 2014 Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) poetry award (now called CLIPPA[4]) for the poem "Wayland".

[16] Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Julia Eccleshare said in October 2003: "Tony Mitton's The Tale of Tales, illustrated by Peter Bailey (David Fickling Books, £12.99) is a wonderful piece of storytelling told seamlessly in prose and poetry which, in the best tradition of The Canterbury Tales, shows what an excellent storytelling vehicle poetry can be.

"[17] Mitton was named by Teresa Cremin (2013) as someone whose work that has inspired reluctant readers.

[18] Many more reviews are listed in the Encyclopedia.com article cited above (towards the end, in the section "Biographical and Critical Sources").

The story of the craftsman Wayland, gorgeously retold by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton, makes the hairs on your neck rise up."

In the obituary in Poetry Nation /PN Review (267, Volume 49 Number 1), Geoffrey Pawling called him "one of Britain’s most popular and versatile children's poets".