Meet Peter Blake, the famous New Zealand yachtsman, who won the world's most famous yacht races and worked to help save the world's precious waterways.
David Hill (Author)
David Hill is a prolific and highly regarded New Zealand writer,
playwright, poet, columnist and critic. Best known for his highly
popular and award-winning body of work for young people, ranging
from picture books to teenage fiction, his novels have been
published all around the world and translated into several
languages. In 2004 David was made a Member of the New Zealand Order
of Merit and in 2005 he was awarded the Storylines Margaret Mahy
Medal, acknowledging his significant contribution to children's
literature in New Zealand.
He lives in New Plymouth.
Phoebe Morris (Illustrator)
Freelance illustrator Phoebe Morris works from a small studio in
Wellington. Hero of the Sea is her fourth collaboration with
acclaimed author David Hill, and their award-winning picture book
series of biographies of famous New Zealanders for Penguin Random
House New Zealand has earned her unanimous praise. In a review for
the New Zealand Listener about her first picture book, First to the
Top, Ann Packer wrote 'Wellingtonian Phoebe Morris makes a stunning
debut as an illustrator ... from the arresting cover, through
cameos of his younger life, to haunting, other-worldly
mountainscapes, Morris's style gives the old story a cool new
edge.' Find out more about Phoebe's work at
phoebemorriscreative.com
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