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Brian Mulligan qualified as a physiotherapist in 1954 and gained his Diploma in Manipulative Therapy in 1974. His list of honours is extensive. In 1996 he was made an Honorary Fellow of The New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists for his contribution to physiotherapy. He was made a life member of the New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association in 1988 and in 1998 he was made a life member of the New Zealand College of Physiotherapy. In 2003 he was made an honorary teaching fellow of the School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago and a year later he was made a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy. In 2007 The World Confederation for Physical Therapy presented him with an International Service Award for his exceptional contribution to Physical Therapy. He also received the prestigious Maitland Award from I.F.O.M.P.T. in Glasgow in 2016, for his manual therapy contributions; in the field of manual therapy, he could not have received a higher international honour. Brian has been involved in the teaching of manual therapy in New Zealand since 1970 and internationally since 1972; his courses have always proved popular. To meet the huge demand from therapists wishing to learn his new concepts and to ensure high educational standards in perpetuity, he set up an international organisation in 1995 to accredit teachers, the Mulligan Concept Teachers Association (MCTA). Participants on courses conducted by those accredited are assured of a high quality of teaching standard. His teachers are listed on his web page www.bmulligan.com. Brian Mulligan has been the author of numerous articles that have appeared in issues of the New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy and overseas publications. Along with ‘Manual Therapy “NAGS”, “SNAGS”, “MWMS” etc.’ (which is now in its seventh edition), he published ‘Self Treatment for the Back, Neck and Limbs’ in 2003. This was written for the public and its fourth edition has since been published in 2022.

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Erin Munro is a content and copywriter by day and can be found working from a local cafe, or her home while the family is out. Working with words keeps her imagination running wild, and she now carries around a notebook to keep track of fun words she comes across - the current favourite is dandelion.

Author, Ian Munro, is a retired educator (secondary and tertiary levels). He is a published author who has written a weekly column for the Otago Daily Times since 1999. This Dog - Ko Tenei Kuri is his first foray into writing for young children. Illustrator, Rebecca Utting, is a User Experience designer (UX designer) and digital illustrator with a background in animation, learning design, voice acting, web development, videography, and carnival sideshows. This Dog - Ko Tenei Kuri is her first children's picture book. Translator (Maori), Piripi Walker (Ngati Raukawa) is a Victoria University graduate and Director of Language Studies at Te Wananga o Raukawa. He translates for health and educational groups, Maori and non-Maori organisations, and has translated a range of children's books, including Margaret Mahy's He Raiona i roto i nga Otaota - A Lion in the Meadow.

About the author Marie Munro is a former primary school teacher who has been writing professionally for nearly 40 years - as a journalist, desktop publisher, editor of community newspapers, learning designer for the construction industry and more recently, as the author/publisher of bilingual picture books She is passionate about getting children to engage with, and thoroughly enjoy, books, so has chosen to fill her retirement days turning the invisible Magic Story Book of her classroom years into visible storybooks for the enjoyment of children and the people who share books with them.

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Antonia Murphy is an award-winning journalist and the author of Dirty Chick and Madam, which has been adapted into a television series. She is also the founder of The Bach, a legal, feminist escort agency. A San Francisco native, she lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her partner and two children.

Dr. Ngahuia Murphy (Ngati Manawa, Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Ngati Kahungunu,Te Arawa) is an award winning scholar, author, artist and public speaker committed to reclaiming and reactivating Indigenous women's sacred knowledge and ritual practice. Her widely celebrated research work in Aotearoa New Zealand has been instrumental in reviving 'lost' Maori menstruation rites of passage and women's ceremonies that were deliberately erased through patriarchal colonial processes. Her books 'Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-colonial Maori world' (based on her award winning Master's thesis) and 'Waiwhero: A celebration of womanhood' continue to be wildly popular, inspiring a broad movement of reclamation concerning Maori women's ceremony. The books have inspired multiple art exhibitions, international and national theater works, a short film and documentaries on the revival of Maori matrilineal knowledge. Ngahuia's publications have been distributed in all schools in Aotearoa New Zealand by The Ministry of Education recognising the empowering and transformative content.

K.C Murphy has always had an extremely vivid imagination and finds story ideas popping into her head at the most inopportune moments, like 2am! After many years of ghostwriting for other people, she decided to try her hand at writing her own children's stories. Working with rhyme has always been her chosen format and she firmly believes she was rhyming words before she could talk properly. K.C lives in the beautiful county of Devon with her husband and their various rescued pets. It's her belief that every child deserves to be able to read and therefore enjoy the magical world of literature. Much of her inspiration for story writing comes from everyday life and seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. K.C would like to say a huge thank you to the furry visitor that inspired the Mouse Adventures stories and to you, the reader, for choosing to read them.