Kiwi Baby

(Paperback)

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A beautiful story about how a new baby needs time to hatch and grow, for all young brothers- and sisters-in-waiting. Will the egg EVER hatch This is a story for all children eagerly awaiting a new sibling. 'When Baby wakes up, will she hop and jump' 'Not yet, Kiwi Iti, these things take time.' Helen Taylor's gentle text and exquisitely detailed illustrations show that growing a family takes patience and love, but is oh-so-worth the wait. Also available in a te reo Maori edition, Pipi Kiwi.

Author Bio

Helen Taylor is an award-winning children's book illustrator and an exhibiting artist with works in private collections around New Zealand and overseas. She has been illustrating books since 1992 and has been twice shortlisted for the LIANZA Children's Book Awards. In 2006, Helen won Best Picture Book in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, with A Booming in the Night, a collaboration with writer Ben Brown. Helen has also written and illustrated a number of picture books including The Indigo Bird, Fifty-Five Feathers and the bestselling Kiwi Play with Me. In 2015 her story about birdsong, Kakapo Dance, won a Storylines Notable Picture Book Award. Helen lives in an old yellow house on a red-boned hill in the portside town of Lyttelton.