About the Author

Ned Barraud has been illustrating children's books since 2000, since studying at Victoria University. He has illustrated the highly successful 'Explore and Discover' series of books about different ecosystems in New Zealand, and other books, including 'Watch out for the Weka', 2018's acclaimed book on insects 'New Zealand's Backyard Beasts' and two further books 2019, 'Tohora' and 'Rock Pools' and 2020 'What happened to the moa' and 'Where is it?'