The Proud Pūteketeke

Peter Millett (Author)

Peter Millett is a highly popular children’s author. He has written across a number of children’s genres and all of his work is stamped with his trademark energy and zany humour - qualities that always delight young audiences on his school visits. He is the author of There Was an Odd Farmer Who Swallowed a Fly, the Johnny Danger DIY Spy series (Penguin), Boy Zero series (Faber & Faber), The Invincibles series (Scholastic) and several picture books published in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, North America and Europe. Peter’s number one goal is to help make reading and writing a rewarding and fun-filled pastime for kids worldwide. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

Fifi Colston (Illustrator)

Fifi Colston is a straight-up creative with her fingers in many arty pies. She is an award-winning junior-fiction novelist and illustrator of more than 30 children’s books including the bestselling Pearl in a Whirl by Catherine Robertson, Marvellous Marvin by Nadia Lim and the Little Yellow Digger stories by Peter Gilderdale and the Storylines Notable Junior Fiction novel Masher. She is also a poet and a television presenter of arts and crafts - firstly on TVNZ’s ‘What Now’ and then ‘The Good Morning Show’. She has been creating World of Wearable Arts designs and has been a finalist and an award-winner many times over. She has also worked in the New Zealand TV and film industry as a costumier, puppet maker and illustrator and trainee scriptwriter. In between writing and creating, Fifi enjoys visiting schools and community groups, inspiring budding artists and writers through workshops in creative process.