Authors

OLT Finlayson Park School Samoan Bilingual Unit

Artist / Illustrator Rob Foote is best known for creating beautiful and humorous work aimed at the young and young at heart.

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Mark Forman is a writer based in Onehunga, Auckland. His doctoral thesis formed the basis of his first book, a scholarly work published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. Forman's personal interests in New Zealand contemporary art, biography and social history were the drivers for this project, for which he has been awarded a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant, the 2024 Marti and Gerrard Friedlander Charitable Trust publishing grant, and a runner-up placement in the CLNZ / NZSA Writers' Award.

Kim Forrester is a mother, nature lover, global traveller, holistic well-being advocate and kindness enthusiast. As an award-winning author, educator and consultant, she combines cutting edge science with spiritual philosophy to inspire holistic well-being and fullness of living. She has featured in media throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and the USA and regularly contributes to well-being and lifestyle publications all over the world.

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Ian Foster is a New Zealand rugby legend from Waikato, New Zealand. Foster became an assistant coach and selector for the All Blacks in 2011, and remained an assistant coach through to his appointment as head coach in 2019. As a player, Foster represented Waikato, where his 148 games from 1985-1998 is union record. He formerly coached the Waikato Chiefs, between 2004 and 2011, and is currently head coach with Japanese club Toyota Verblitz.