I'm thrilled our book RURU Night Hunter has made it to the final round of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards! It is such an honour to be selected by your peers at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

​PEKAPEKA Secret Forest Bat is zip, zap, zooming into bookstores this week!
I'm so grateful to everyone who helped in bringing PEKAPEKA to life:
The Illustrations by Ned Barraud are AMAZING (some of my favourites below).
Published by Scholastic NZ.
Designed by Vida Kelly.
Thank you also to my wonderful critique buddies (you know who you are) and my agent Frances Plumpton.

I'm absolutely delighted that our book RURU, Night Hunter is a finalist in the Elsie Locke Award for non-fiction! It is such an honour to be selected at this level and I'm most grateful to the all the people who have helped RURU on its journey so far - thank you to the team at Scholastic, Vida Kelly, Frances Plumpton, my writer friends and critique buddies.

This week I visited Te Uho o te Nikau Primary School in Flatbush, Auckland during their Book Week. I had a great day reading RURU, Night Hunter and TUATARA, A living Treasure and speaking about our special native species with many enthusiastic tamariki in year 1-3 classes. Here's some photos: 

Absolutely delighted that Ruru, Night Hunter has been selected by the NZ Listener as a best book for children and young adults in 2024! There are so many incredible pukapuka in this list from both Aotearoa and overseas, including Ned Barruad's wonderful book, Tasting with Your Feet. I'm so happy to see Ruru included - thank you Ann Packer and the NZ Listener!