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Jana Keir lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with her two young children, husband, and Devon Rex cat. Jana grew up on a dairy farm in Northland, which gave her a love of the outdoors but also a thirst for adventure. While living in London, she reconnected with her Dutch family after several decades; both online and in real life. Inspired by her travels to Amsterdam, the city became one of the locations of 'The Girl from Oceania'.

Sir Kenneth James Keith ONZ KBE KC was born in 1937 and educated at Auckland Grammar School, the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law School. He was a faculty member of Victoria University from 1962 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1991, and served in the New Zealand Department of External Affairs during the early 1960s, and as a member of the United Nations Secretariat from 1968 to 1970.From 1996 to 2003, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, and was subsequently one of the inaugural appointments to the new Supreme Court of New Zealand, which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 2004. He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005, serving a nine-year term from 2006 to 2015.In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kenneth Keith was appointed a Knight-Companion of the Order of the British Empire, for services to law reform and legal education, and in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand.

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MICHAEL KEITH is a highly experienced editor and writer who has worked in the area of school curriculum and museums for most of his career. He is the former head of the writing team at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and now runs his own consultancy, Shearwater Associates. CHRIS SZEKELY has held the statutory position of Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library since 2007. He is a founding member of the Māori Information Professionals’ Association Te Rōpū Whakahau and a Fellow of the Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. He is also an award-winning children’s author with works published in te reo Māori and English.

Arlo Kelly is a young author from the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand. He has been a passionate writer for many years and most of his stories have been inspired by the natural world around him. He has grown up living by the sea and especially loves the wild east coast of New Zealand, which was the setting for this story. He has spent many summers there, exploring the coastline with all its natural geographical wonders and amazing sea life.

Deborah Kelly grew up in New Zealand and has lived in Japan and Scotland. Passionate about literacy, she loves to visit schools, libraries and festival events to share her books with children. Joanna Bartel loves designing characters and creating playful images to enhance imaginative learning.

Kristin Kelly is a passionate educator and believes in fostering kindness in the classroom above all else. Amelina Jones is an illustrator with a passion for nature, paints and stories, which she brings to her art.

He kaiako reo Māori, he kaituhi, he kaiwhakawhiti reo hoki a Hēmi Kelly (nō Ngāti Maniapoto, nō Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whāoa). Nāna i tuhi te pukapuka A Māori Word A Day, ka whai mai ko A Māori Phrase A Day. Nāna i whakamāori te pakimaero poto o Sleeps Standing nā Witi Ihimaero, te pakimaero o The Alchemist nā Paulo Coelho, ā, nāna hoki tēnei whakaari o Translations nā Brian Friel i whakamāori. Ko Hēmi te Kaiwhakahaere o Tautika Ltd, he kaitohutohu reo Māori ia, ā, ko ia hoki te kaihanga me te kaiwhakahaere i ngā pae ako ā-ipurangi o Everyday Māori.

No te tau 1904 a Theodor Seuss Geisel whanau mai ai i Springfield, i Massachusetts - ko Ted te ingoa i mohiotia ra e ona hoa, ko Dr. Seuss ki te hia nei miriona tangata e monoa ana ki ana mahi. Mutu ana tana ako ki te Kareti o Dartmouth, i New Hampshire, ki te whare wananga o Oxford hoki, i Ingarangi, ka huri ia ki nga mahi tuhi pakiwaituhi mo te maheni, ki nga mahi whakatairanga ano hoki. Ka tere kawea ana tini pukenga ki te tuhituhi pukapuka ma te tamariki. No te tau 1937 tangia ai tana pukapuka tuatahi And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, a, nui atu i te 60 atu ano nga pukapuka ma te tamariki kua puta i a ia, ko etahi o nga tino pukapuka o te ao, e arohaina nuitia ana e te iti me te rahi - ko The Cat in the Hat (no te tau 1957), ko How the Grinch Stole Christmas (no te tau 1957) ko Green Eggs and Ham (no te tau 1960), me The Lorax (no te tau 1971). Ko Oh, the Places You'll Go! ta Seuss kupu ohaki, i tangia i te tau i mua i tana matenga, i tona tau 87. Theodor Seuss Geisel - known as Ted to his friends and as Dr. Seuss by his millions of fans - was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children's books. His first book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was published in 1937 and he went on to publish more than 60 of the most beloved children's books of all time, from The Cat in the Hat (1957) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957) to Green Eggs and Ham (1960) and The Lorax (1971). Published one year before his death at age 87, Oh, the Places You'll Go! is Dr Seuss's farewell salute.

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