Fleur Beale is the author of many award-winning books for children
and young adults - she has now had more than 40 books published in
New Zealand, as well as being published in the United States and
England. Beale is the only writer to have twice won the Storylines
Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book: with Slide the Corner in
2007, and I Am Not Esther in 2009. She won the Esther Glen Award
for distinguished contribution to children's literature for Juno Of
Taris in the 2009 LIANZA Children's Book Awards. Fierce September
won the YA category in the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards and
the LIANZA Young Adult Award in 2011. In 2012 she won the Margaret
Mahy Medal for her outstanding contribution to children's writing,
and in 2015 she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for
services to literature. In 1999, Beale was Dunedin College of
Education's Writer in Residence. A former high-school teacher,
Beale lives in Wellington.
Series editor and series creator Lyn White has extensive experience
as a primary school teacher-librarian and EAL teacher and in 2010
completed postgraduate studies in Editing and Communications at the
University of Melbourne. Lyn is passionate about children's
literature and has great expertise in engaging students with
quality texts. Her work with refugee children motivated her to
create the acclaimed Through My Eyes series of books set in
contemporary war zones. Lyn created and edited the Through My Eyes
- Natural Disaster Zones series to pay tribute to the courage and
resilience of children who are often the most vulnerable in
post-disaster situations. Lyn continues to teach EAL and is an
education consultant and conference presenter.
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