It’s World Book Day and I kicked off my World Book Day celebrations with Cliftonville Primary School. We talked about The Terrible Trio and created heaps of new stories for Margarine the penguin, including a trip to Candyland and competing in the Ocean Olympics. They also had some great questions and we discussed everything from creating book covers to why …
It’s a Top Ten takeover!
The Terrible Trio have taken over the January Aotearoa Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List! I’m so chuffed to see Zeb, Marge and Barry in at number TWO, with The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out, and number FOUR, with The (not so) Superheroes. Thank you so much to all the brilliant booksellers and buyers who have embraced …
And then there were two!
The second book in The Terrible Trio series is landing in bookshops and libraries around the world over the next couple of weeks, starting with the UK! Zeb the zebra, Barry the lemur and Margarine the penguin have the WORST superpowers in the world, and Zeb is sure life can’t get any worse. But when he turns up for his …
Starred review for The Terrible Trio!
I’m so thrilled that The Terrible Trio: The (not so) Superheroes received a starred review in the American Library Association’s Booklist. You can have a read of the review here too. It’s been such an awesome year for Zeb, Marge and Barry and I can’t wait for 2026 when they are back with not one but TWO more books! Watch …
Hello, Port Chalmers!
It’s been a fun morning of story planning and reading at Port Chalmers School today. I started my day with Years 3 and 4 and then Years 5 and 6 and introduced them to the world of The Terrible Trio. It was so brilliant to meet readers who already knew Zeb, Barry and Marge so well and new readers who …
Storylines Notable Book Awards 2025
The Storylines Notable Book Awards 2025 booklists have just dropped and I’m chuffed to bits that The Terrible Trio: The (not so) Superheroes has made it on to the Junior Fiction list: The list is packed full of incredible books by awesome authors and illustrators and I’m thrilled Zeb, Barry and Marge are sitting alongside such brilliant fiction for young …
Why Not? and The Terrible Trio Story Workshops
Today, I visited Halfway Bush School to meet all the pupils from Year 1 to Year 6. First up were Year 1 and 2 and I got to share Why Not? with the pupils and surprise them with all the interesting library facts I had been collecting whilst researching the book. After a delicious morning tea of cheese and choccie …
The Terrible Trio x Reading Heroes
I was chuffed to bits to be invited to talk with Rachel and the children who are part of Reading Heroes. I introduced my books, and of course The Terrible Trio, right before we had a reading and created a bunch of new adventures for the characters. We had stories about rainbow rocks, time machines, witches and spider forests and …
The Terrible Trio reading and crafts at the library
The Terrible Trio are on the shelves at Dunedin City Library! To celebrate, I ran a character and crafts workshop in the story pit. We made capes, decorated penguins and I read from the book. We then we created heaps of brand new terrible superheroes including a poo-walking pigeon and a torpedo-eating elephant. Thank you to everyone who came along …
The Serious Business of Funny Books
Scholastic invited me to share my thoughts on funny books. You can have a read of the post here.
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