About the Author

Paula Green (Author)
Paula Green ONZM is one of New Zealand's most highly regarded poets, as well as an acclaimed writer, reviewer and anthologist. She has published a number of acclaimed poetry collections for adults and children, and edited several anthologies. She is also the author of two picture books. In 2017, she received the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry and was admitted to the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Poetry. She lives in coastal West Auckland with her husband, the painter Michael Hight (they have two adult daughters), and champions Aotearoa's present and future poets through her two blogs, Poetry Box for children and Poetry Shelf for adults.

Kimberly Andrews (Illustrator)
Kimberly Andrews is a trained biologist and geologist who grew up in the Canadian Rockies and has lived and worked in New Zealand, Borneo and the UK. Her picture books have been widely acclaimed and her Puffin the Architect series has been published in five languages. In 2019 she won the Russell Clark Award for Illustration for Puffin the Architect, the first story which she both wrote and illustrated. Kimberly lives with her husband and two young daughters in a shipping-container house near Wellington, where she illustrates and writes, and runs Tumbleweed Tees, a screen-printing business featuring her illustrations of New Zealand plants and wildlife.