Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa
The Storylines Story Tour visits schools and libraries:
Monday 21 November – Northcote, Birkenhead, Birkdale, Takapuna, Mairangi Bay, Red Beach, Whangāpārāoā
Tuesday 22 November – Howick, Cockle Bay, Shelly Park, Mt Eden, Three Kings, Remuera, Meadowbank
Wednesday 23 November – Glen Eden, Titirangi, New Lynn, Avondale, Te Atatu
Thursday 24 November – Māngere, Favona, Ōtara
Friday 25 November – Pahurehure, Rosehill, Papakura, Manurewa
Presenting the Auckland Storylines Story Tour are writers Des Hunt, Steph Matuku and Tania Roxborogh with writer/illustrator Laura Shallcrass.
The writers are available for interviews before and during the tour.
| Des Hunt lives on the Coromandel Peninsula. For more than 40 years he was a secondary teacher specialising first in physics, and then later in electronics and computing. Interspersed with teaching Des had secondments to develop science curricula in the Pacific, Scotland and New Zealand. Since he retired from teaching, he’s concentrated on writing fiction for children and continues his aim of fostering young peoples’ natural interest in the science of their surroundings. | |
| Laura Shallcrass is an award-winning writer and illustrator based in Central Otago. Her passion is to create artworks which celebrate natures beauty, with the aim of emphasising our duty as caretakers of the natural world. Her personal work has recently focused on mental health, preservation of the environment and female power. She won the 2021 Russell Clark Award for Illustration and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2021 with two books. | |
| Steph Matuku (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Te Atiawa) is a freelance writer from Taranaki. Her first two novels, Flight of the Fantail and Whetū Toa and the Magician were Storylines Notable Books. Whetū Toa and the Magician was a finalist at the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. In 2021, Steph was awarded the established Māori writer residency at the Michael King Centre in Auckland where she worked on a novel about post-apocalyptic climate change. | |
| Tania Roxborogh is the author of 33 books across a range of genres for children and adults. She is the winner of several teaching and writing awards, including the 2021 Supreme Winner: The Margaret Mahy Book of the year and winner of The Esther Glen Award, Junior Fiction for Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea. She is a teacher and has appeared in Shortland Street, a couple of ads and in Zena, Warrior Princess’. Tania has a BA in Humanities and a BA in Māori and is currently working on a PhD in Māori knowledge. She lives and teaches in Canterbury. |
