We Wish You a Kiwi Christmas + CD
By (Author) Lynette Evans
Illustrated by Myles Lawford
Scholastic New Zealand Limited
Scholastic New Zealand
1st October 2014
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
32
When Little Kiwi discovers a disconsolate Santa stranded on a hillside with not a reindeer in sight, she rounds up all her bird friends to help. And in so doing, Little Kiwi gets to realise her own dreamto fly! Another great Kiwi Christmas sing-along from Scholastic NZ, sung by popular entertainer, Pio Terei, in both English and Maoriand everyone knows the tune already!
Lynette Evans is an Auckland-based author/publisher who has written many books for children, both fiction and non-fiction, which have been published worldwide. She has a degree in English literature and her love of storytelling, humour and imagination is evident in her stories. Myles Lawford is a Kiwi through and through. He grew up in New Zealand and studied art at university in New Zealand. Myles has illustrated number of titles for Scholastic, including The 12 Days of Kiwi Christmas, Doggy Ditties and The Letterbox Cat - a quirky collection of poems. He views each children's illustration project as a chance to re-live his childhood! Pio Terei is one of New Zealand's most popular and personable entertainers. He is also a positive parenting advocate and spokesperson and has presented No Sweat Parenting shows around the country for many years, helping to write and present a series of the same name for Maori TV. In 2012, he was made a member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to the entertainment industry.