Sally Sutton is one of Walker Books Australia's bestselling
picture book authors. Her first picture book for Walker Books
Australia, Roadworks, won the Picture Book category of the 2009 New
Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards and was followed by Demolition
and Construction to complete the series. Her books have also
reached an international audience and have sold into the UK, US,
Korea and The Netherlands. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with
her husband and two daughters.
Robyn Belton is one of New Zealand’s best known and most celebrated
children’s book illustrators. Her first book with Joy Cowley,
Greedy Cat (1983), established her in New Zealand and the United
States and their second collaboration, The Duck in the Gun (1985),
won her the Russell Clark Award in 1985. The book quickly
established an international following and its powerful anti-war
message saw the book translated into Japanese and chosen as one of
the 10 Children’s Books selected for the Hiroshima Peace Museum.
Robyn’s 1997 book with Jennifer Beck, The Bantam and the Soldier,
won both the Picture Book Category of the New Zealand Post
Children’s Book Awards, and the Book of the Year. In addition to
her work as a professional illustrator, Belton has taught and run
workshops throughout New Zealand for both children and adults. She
has participated in the Book Council’s Writers in Schools programme
as well as teaching at Polytechnics in Nelson and Dunedin. In
addition to workshops, Belton has spoken and published widely on
the subject of illustration, and has had her work exhibited in New
Zealand, Italy and Japan. Robyn Belton was the 2006 winner of the
prestigious award for children's literature, the Margaret Mahy
Medal.
The rhyming text is fun to read aloud, and the watercolor
illustrations allow the weather and the steadily pouring rain to be
the book's focus.
*goodreads*
This picture book is terrific as a read-alone or read-aloud and
will add a classy touch to any library collection.
*St. Anne's Episcopal School, Middleton*
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