Maria Gill

New Zealand's Endangered Dolphins

Illustrator: Ivancic, Marco

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From award-winning writer Maria Gill, and illustrator Marco Ivancic, comes New Zealand's Endangered Dolphins. The North Island New Zealand dolphin (Popoto or Maui dolphin) is the most endangered dolphin in the world. The South Island New Zealand dolphin (Pahu or Hector's dolphin) is the smallest dolphin on the planet. Readers will learn more about these playful, intelligent and beautiful mammals and how marine sanctuaries are helping to protect them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Upstart Press
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776940639
• ISBN-10: 1776940636
• Artikelnr.: 71207406

Autorenporträt

Marco Ivancic is a freelance artist from Wellington, New Zealand. Over the past thirteen years he has illustrated eight books with Maria Gill. This includes the award-winning ANZAC Heroes, which won the 2016 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year prize at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. Their book Abel Tasman was also shortlisted for the 2018 Russell Clark Illustration award at the national book awards. For the last twenty years, Maria Gill has visited schools throughout New Zealand and Australia, sharing her 60+ books with children. In 2020, Storylines awarded Maria the Margaret Mahy Medal for outstanding services to children's literature. That same year she gained a master's in creative writing (Honours). Her book Anzac Heroes was named the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2016 and eleven of her other books have received Storylines Notable Book awards. Maria writes full-time in a seaside village north of Auckland.