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Miriama Kamo is an award-winning journalist. She is the anchor of TVNZ’s flagship current affairs programme Sunday and Maori current affairs programme Marae. Miriama has worked on many of TVNZ’s key programmes including 1 News as a newsreader. She is also a keen writer who is published in Metro, NZ Herald and The Spinoff. Miriama’s first children’s book with Scholastic was the popular The Stolen Stars of Matariki.
Rangi Matamua is a New Zealand indigenous studies and Maori cultural astronomy academic of Tūhoe descent. He is the first Maori to win a Prime Minister’s Science Prize, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi. Rangi holds extensive knowledge about our skies, star clusters, galaxies and planets and is on a mission to disseminate star lore left to him by his tīpuna Te Kokau and Rawiri Te Kokau. This is his first book with Scholastic.
Isobel (Izzy) Joy Te-Aho White (Ngai Tahu and Ngati Kahungungu ki te Wairoa) is a freelance graphic artist and illustrator with a passion for the natural world and te ao Maori. She specialises in symbolism and metaphor, and her work is influenced by mythology and folk tales, botanical illustration and life experience. This is the second book Izzy has illustrated for Scholastic after 2021’s BatKiwi. Izzy currently lives and works in Poneke/Wellington.
