Catherine Robertson (Author)
CATHERINE ROBERTSON'S novels have all been number one New Zealand
bestsellers. Her fourth novel, The Hiding Places, also won the 2015
Nelson Libraries' Award for New Zealand Fiction. Catherine reviews
books in print and on radio and is a regular guest on Radio New
Zealand's The Panel and Jesse Mulligan's Book Critic slot. She is
married with two grown sons, two Burmese cats, two rescue dogs and
a powerful vacuum cleaner. She divides her time between Wellington
and Hawke's Bay.
Fifi Colston (Illustrator)
Fifi Colston is a straight-up creative with her fingers in many
arty pies. She is an award-winning junior-fiction novelist and
illustrator of more than 30 children's books including the
bestselling Pearl in a Whirl by Catherine Robertson, Marvellous
Marvin by Nadia Lim and the Little Yellow Digger stories by Peter
Gilderdale and the Storylines Notable Junior Fiction novel Masher.
She is also a poet and a television presenter of arts and crafts -
firstly on TVNZ's 'What Now' and then 'The Good Morning Show'. She
has been creating World of Wearable Arts designs and has been a
finalist and an award-winner many times over. She has also worked
in the New Zealand TV and film industry as a costumier, puppet
maker and illustrator and trainee scriptwriter. In between writing
and creating, Fifi enjoys visiting schools and community groups,
inspiring budding artists and writers through workshops in creative
process.
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