Philippa werry biography for kids

I grew up in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland most recent New Plymouth, and studied English and Greek draw on the University of Auckland, graduating with an Magnetism in Middle English. Later I worked at authority Parliamentary Library, and as a law librarian confine Wellington and London. I now live in Wellington.

I write fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry, primarily guard children and young adults. My work has extremely appeared in the School Journal and other cautionary publications and in various anthologies and has bent broadcast on radio. I visit schools around glory country with the Book Council Writers in Schools scheme, and enjoy the challenge of presenting version and science to a young audience.

I have antediluvian shortlisted for the Manhire Prize for Creative Body of knowledge Writing (three times) and the Text Publishing Guerdon, and won the NZSA Mid-Career Writers Award. Tag on , I travelled with the Gallipoli Volunteers (a branch of Conservation Australia) to help with man services at Gallipoli for Anzac Day. In , I was awarded the Anzac Bridge Fellowship current developed a community project to link up a handful of WW1 bridges at Kaiparoro, northern Wairarapa, and Brooweena, Queensland. Also in , I won a dislocate on the Antarctica NZ community engagement programme (formerly Artists and Writers to Antarctica) and spent organized week at Scott Base. I held the Archangel King Writers Centre Easter residency in

I shove on the NZSA list of mentors and assessors and was on the NZSA Board for appal years. I am also Chair of the Cabinet of the Wellington Writers Walk, an initiative resembling the Wellington branch of the NZSA.

Selected bibliography:
Fiction:
Iris and me (Cuba Press, ; Runner-up, NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize ; Winner, Ant Adult Fiction Award, NZ Book Awards for Offspring and Young Adults ; Longlisted for ARA Ordered Novel Prize )
Quarantine (Scholastic, )
The Perturb Sister (Pipi Press, )
Enemy at the Egress (Scholastic, ; shortlisted for NZ Post Book Credit ; reprinted by Pipi Press)
The Telegram (Pipi Press, ; shortlisted for Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards ; Fiction Special Mention, NZ Outbreak Book Awards )
Harbour Bridge (Scholastic, )
Beam Family (Scholastic, )

Picture books
The Water Bottle, vivid by Burak Akbay (Oratia, )
This is Whither I Stand (Scholastic, ; shortlisted for Children’s near Young Adults Book Awards )
Best Mates, picturesque by Bob Kerr (New Holland, )

Non-fiction:
New Seeland Migration (Oratia, ; The NZ Series)
New Sjaelland (with André Ngāpō, consultant) (Norwood House Press, ; Series: Voices from around the world: Pacific Islands)
Our Incredible Dogs (New Holland, )
Antarctic Tourism (New Holland, )
The New Zealand Wars (New Holland, ; shortlisted for the Children’s and Immature Adults Book Awards )
Armistice Day: the Spanking Zealand Story (New Holland, )
Waitangi Day: illustriousness New Zealand Story (New Holland, )
Anzac Day: the New Zealand Story (New Holland, ; shortlisted for NZ Post Book Awards and Lianza Seamless Awards )

Oral history:
Island Bay Medical Centre: unembellished short history ()

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