Children's Book Launch this coming Sunday - you are invited

Duck Creek Press

has pleasure in inviting you to celebrate the launch of a new picture book at the Mt Eden Village Centre, 449 Mt Eden Rd, Cnr Mt Eden Road & Ngauruhoe St, Mt Eden on Sunday 8^th November at 5pm. CHILDREN WELCOME!

Lillibutt is in Australia. She and her friend Moana are visiting Myilly, a Bininj girl. Following a dream of Myilly’s sent by an ancestor they travel from Kakadu in the North to Uluru - the heart of Australia in the red centre. Traveling by foot, truck, the Ghan train, Flying Doctor’s plane and kangaroo they have many adventures en route. The trio overcome some scary challenges with crocodiles, dingoes, snakes and feral camels. A charming tale of perseverance that also gives the reader a look at Australia, her interesting people, wild animals and difficult terrain.

This is the third Lillibutt book by Maris and Claudia, following the successful Lillibutt’s Big Adventure, published by Duck Creek Press in 2012 and Lillibutt’s Te Araroa Adventure in 2014.

Maris O'Rourke is a former Secretary for Education for New Zealand and the first Director of Education for The World Bank. She has worked in, or on, education in up to 50 developing countries. She is also an accomplished poet and her first collection Singing With Both Throats was published by David Ling Publishing in 2013. She lives and works in Mt Eden in Auckland.

Visual artist, painter, printmaker, film director, Claudia Pond Eyley was born in Matamata, and attended schools in Montreal, Canada and New York. She returned to New Zealand to attend the School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in the mid-1960s and continues to work from her studio in Mt Eden. Her acclaimed documentary Helen about Prime Minister Helen Clark has been followed up with Helen Clark: Inside Stories co-authored with Dan Salmon and published by Auckland University Press in 2015.

All three Lillibutt books will be available. Cash sales only.

<<...>> Contact: morourke@hotmail.co.nz