by Colin, Jess and Fernando | Jun 19, 2018 | Heroes, Kids Book
On a bit of a war path the other week, I started looking into information about the numbers of books that have female heroes in them. (I know it should be ‘heroine’ – but, in the voice of my mind they’re always ‘heroes’ regardless of gender so go with it. First, I...
by Colin, Jess and Fernando | Jun 19, 2018 | Kids Book
A friend shared a video with me the other day which was quite disturbing. It was a video made by the creators of “Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls” entitled “the Ugly Truth of Children’s books” in which they took a shelf of children’s books and removed all but those...
by Colin, Jess and Fernando | Jun 19, 2018 | Albania
When researching all the different countries for My Way Home, I started to notice a trend – that of one (or several) endemic species under siege. While it was important to include characters kids can identify with (and intrinsically like), it was also important to me...
by Colin, Jess and Fernando | Nov 15, 2017 | Kids Book
We sometimes grieve a little for the childhoods we had and the childhoods kids are experiencing now. Somehow it seemed a safer, less complicated world where kids were kids and there was so much more … freedom somehow. Certainly there was a whole lot more outside...
by Colin, Jess and Fernando | Nov 15, 2017 | Kids Book, New Zealand
There’s something about being a kiwi. Growing up on a large-by-pacific-standards but globally little island in the South Pacific. As a kiwi kid, I grew up with the knowledge of two absolute certainties. One, if I ever wanted to experience the world I’d...