Wot Knot You Got? Mophead’s Guide to Life
Author:
Selina Tusitala-Marsh
Publisher:
Auckland University Press
ISBN:
9781869409548
Date published:
09 November 2023
Pages:
112
Format:
Paperback
RRP:
$29.99
With her trademark visual wit, our buddy Mophead unravels the knots that keep us up at night.
‘What do you do if nothing is right – not at home, at school, anywhere?’
‘What if people don’t like me?’
‘What if your own ideas stink?’
‘How do I hug my dad?’
One morning, Selina wakes up with a twisting, tangling, knotty problem. It takes over everyone and everything – work, kids, life, the lot. How can she get out of a knot this tight?
Then she remembers: kids write to her all the time – they ask some of life’s toughest questions. Can she help them through their knots? And through helping them, can she find a way out of her own?
In this self-help give-it-a-go moppy-mayhem-filled workbook-that’s-all-about-play, join Selina as she scribbles and draws and writes her way out of the darkness – and invites you to take out a pen.
A book for readers from eight to eighty and for anyone in a dark place, no matter what knot you’ve got.
About the author:
Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent. She was the frst Pacifc Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from The University of Auckland and is now a Professor of English specialising in Pasifka literature. Her frst collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. Marsh represented Tuvalu at the London Olympics Poetry Parnassus event in 2012; her work has been translated into Ukrainian and Spanish and has appeared in numerous forms live in schools, museums, parks, billboards, print and online literary journals. As Commonwealth Poet (2016), she composed and performed for the Queen at Westminster Abbey.
She became New Zealand’s Poet Laureate in 2017. Her debut children’s book and memoir, Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference, was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and she followed it with the bestselling Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem.
