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Elspeth Alix Batt has been an illustrator and fine artist for over thirty years and has illustrated many picture books, non-fiction books, book covers, cards, flags and school banners, not to mention innumerable School Journals, Ready to Reads and other educational resources for the NZ Ministry of Education. Love Bugs is her first book as a author/illustrator.
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Juliet Batten was born in Taranaki, where she grew up in Inglewood until the age of fourteen, when her family moved to Auckland. There she attended high school and university in Auckland, graduating with a PhD in English. She has taught English, Environmental Studies and Women's Studies at Auckland University, and was a director of the Queen Elizabeth National Trust for ten years. As an artist she has held many solo exhibitions and co-ordinated collaborative art projects. For twenty-eight years she worked as a Psychosynthesis (transpersonal) counsellor and psychotherapist with a strong focus on the spiritual dimensions of healing. She has offered workshops and courses in ritual, creativity and personal growth over many decades. Her work has now shifted to mentoring, creativity coaching and spiritual guidance through life transitions. She also offers online courses in ritual and sacred earth connection. She has followed a meditation path since 1983 and is a trained meditation teacher. Since 1985 she has celebrated the eight seasons of the year with her ritual group. Her published writing reflects her commitment to personal, community and spiritual well being, and her passion for reconnecting people with nature. Her books Celebrating the Southern Seasons and Dancing with the Seasons explore seasonal celebrations from European and Maori spiritual practices. For the last 12 years she has written her Seasons Newsletter to help her readers align their energies with the seasonal flow.
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James Keir Baxter was born in Dunedin on 29 June 1926 and died in Auckland on 22 October 1972. A controversial figure, he was one of New Zealand's finest, best-known, and most prolific poets.
Archibald Baxter was born at Saddle Hill, Otago, in 1881. One of eight children, he left school aged 12 to follow his father into farming. After two years' military incarceration and ill treatment overseas as a conscientious objector he returned to New Zealand in 1918. He married Millicent Macmillan Brown and they had two children - Terence, who was imprisoned for refusing conscription during World War II, and James K. Baxter, who went on to become one of the country's most well-known literary figures. Archibald Baxter died in 1970.
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