Samantha Montgomerie
Samantha is a Dunedin based writer who lives on the Otago Peninsula. She has written a number of beginner readers for Harper Collins UK, Wendy Pye Publishing and Flying Start Books. Staying Still was selected as the 'Publisher's Top Pick for 2018' for PANZ. She was delighted to be chosen as the winner of the Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award in 2022. Her picture book manuscript Skipper and Scout: A Summer's Walkabout was shortlisted for The Storylines Joy Cowley Award in 2018. She has also been an NZSA recipient on the Complete MS Mentorship Programme in 2020 for her first YA manuscript.
Samantha is also a poet who has been published in the anthologies Nga Kupu Waikato: An Anthology of Waikato Poetry and Pengin Days. She has also been published in Landfall, takahe, 1964, as well as numerous times in the 'Otago Daily Times' and in the DCC publication In Our Backyard.
Genre:
Skills:
Branch:
Otago/Southland
Location:
Dunedin
Publications:
Monkey Finds a Phone
Sunshine Books, 2019
The Thunder Giants
Sunshine Books, 2019
Miss Twinkle, You are a Star!
Sunshine Books, 2019
Art Inside the Frame
Sunshine Books, 2019
Art Outside the Frame
Sunshine Books, 2019
Mr Crocodile goes to the Beach
Sunshine Books, 2018
Flamingoes Everywhere!
Sunshine Books, 2018
The Magician's Hat
Sunshine Books, 2018
Mrs Clucky's Chickens
Sunshine Books, 2018
Can you see me?
Sunshine Books, 2018
What's your fur for?
Sunshine Books, 2018
Staying Still
Sunshine Books, 2018
Listen! Here Comes Night
Sunshine Books, 2018
Light Show Under the Sea
Sunshine Books, 2018
Rain Music
Sunshine Books, 2017
Wind Dance
Sunshine Books, 2017
Buzz, Hop, Zip!
Harper Collins Uk, May 2020
Fix It, Fox
Harper Collins Uk, May 2020
Train to Win
Harper Collins Uk, May 2020
The Power Cut
Harper Collins UK, March 2020
Plastic and Our Planet
Flying Start Books, March 2020
Mind Power
Flying Start Books, March 2020
Mighty Muscles
Flying Start Books, March 2020
Spook Disco
Harper Collins Uk, 2020
Dash to Dig
Harper Collins Uk, September 2020
Run to Win
Harper Collins UK, September 2020
Animal Tricks: Sticking Power
Harper Collins UK, September 2020
Ducks on Trucks
Harper Collins UK, September 2020
Dig and Tip
Harper Collins UK, September 2020
Art is Us
Wendy Pye Publishing, 2020
Fins are Fantastic
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2020)
Plastic and our Planet
(Flying Start Books, March 2020)
Mind Power
(Flying Start Books, March 2020)
Mighty Muscles
(Flying Start Books, March 2020)
Mr Gruffy
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
Game On!
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
The Bake-off
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
Bump, Bounce, Turn
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
Shy Arthur
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
Bouncing about with Bouncer
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
The Alien Invasion
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
Nothing Can Stop Me
(Wendy Pye Publishing, 2021)
Shelter on the Go
(Harper Collins UK, 2021)
Fun to Think
(Harper Collins Uk, 2021)
King of the Kicks
(Harper Collins UK, 2021)
Ready to Read - Phonics
27 Titles for this series (Minsitry of Education, 2021)