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Justine Ross was born into a farming family - her mother was raised on a dairy farm and her father on an orchard. A trained speech language therapist, Justine also graduated with distinction from the London School of Journalism. She has been a trustee of The Rising Foundation, Play it Strange Charitable Trust and a judge of the AMP Do Your Thing Awards. She is now on the board of United Nations Women Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2010 Justine co-authored the best-selling book Every Bastard Says No: The 42 Below Story. She launched a tourism business at Lake Hawea Station in 2020 which was awarded a Conde Nast Gold award for 2023. She is a keen hiker, traveller and climate lobbyist. Geoff Ross was born and raised on a dairy and deer farm south of Auckland. He attended Lincoln University where he graduated with a B Com (Agricultural). In 2018 he received a Doctor of Commerce from Lincoln recognising his achievements as a serial entrepreneur. He founded 42 Below and was a director and chairman of The Trilogy Group and the Savor Group. Geoff has been a trustee of Melanoma NZ and the Endangered Species Foundation. He is currently a trustee of Pure Advantage New Zealand and a board member of New Zealand Natural Fibres. He was in the New Zealand Free Diving Squad and is a keen Hunter and conservationist and climate lobbyist.

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Jillian Rothwell completed an arts degree at Otago University and later a business degree from Massey University. She has worked as a television current affairs researcher, a teacher and run two small businesses. However, her greatest passions are history, the arts, architecture and her family.

Stephen Roucher is an independent photographer, based in Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1995, he has accumulated an archive of conceptually focused series of photographs, depicting the urban and rural environments. His practical experience in the process of photography, both analogue and digital, informs his approach to making his art. He had solo exhibition 'Stands' (series of stands mostly from rural sports fields) at Whangarei Art Museum in 2011 and McNamara Gallery, Whanganui in 2012, 'Void', an installation in the iconic TestStrip gallery in Auckland in 1995. His photographs were featured in many group shows - including in Now & Then: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand photography, Te Manawa, Palmerston North, in 2012.

Simon Rowe left the green hills of New Zealand for the big sky country of Australia when he was sixteen years old. At twenty-one, he set out for the world and somehow managed to fund his travels by photographing and writing about them. He has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years, winning numerous awards for his short fiction and screenplays, including Good Night Papa (2013 Asian Short Screenplay Contest) and Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (2021 Best Indie Book Award). His stories about Japanese life and culture have appeared in The Paris Review, the New York Times, TIME (Asia), the South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, The Australian, and the Australian Financial Review. He has a black belt in iaido (sword quick-drawing), a passion for sea kayaking, and an itch for adventure he never seems able to scratch.

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When I was young the school gave up on me, telling my parents that I would never learn to read and write. So, my parents got a private tutor who soon also have up and said the same thing. They must have wondered what they had adopted. My mother painstakingly taught me herself. I recently found huge books with massive hand drawn pictures, that she had made in an effort to help me read and write. I also recently found one made by my artist grandmother with stunning paintings which I am also turning into a book. Long story short I can read and write. I wrote this when I was younger after watching my dad chase a fly around the house with his rolled-up newspaper. When my father was diagnosed with cancer I decided to have it made into a book to give to him for Christmas. I also dedicated it to my mum as without her I wouldn't have even been able to write this biography.

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Author E mohio nuitia ana a J.K. ROWLING hei kaituhi mo nga pukapuka e whitu o Hare Pota, i whakaputaina ra i te tau 1997 ki te tau 2007. Kua neke atu i te 500 miriona nga tanga o nga haerenga matatoa o Hare ratou ko Rana, ko Heremaiani, e matatu nei te rongonuitanga, kua neke atu i te waru tekau nga reo i whakawhitingia ai nga korero, a, e waru nga hurihanga hei kiriata ina ke te nui o te matakihia. I te taha o te terenga o nga pukapuka o Hare Pota, i tuhi hoki ia i etahi pukapuka poto e toru hei tapirihanga ki era atu: Te Kuitiki i Roto i nga Tau me Nga Katuarehe me nga Wahi e Kitea ai, hei tautoko i a Comic Relief me Lumos, tae atu ki Nga Paki mo Pitara te Kaitito hei tautoko i a Lumos. I mahi tahi a J.K. Rowling ratou ko te kaihanga whakaari, ko Jack Thorne, ko te ringatohu, ko John Tiffany, kia haere tonu nga korero mo Hare ma roto i te whakaari i runga atamira, ko Hare Pota me te Tamaiti kua Kangaia, i timata i Ranana i te tau 2016, a, inaianei kei te ao whanui e whakaaturia ana. I taua tau ano, katahi ia ka timata hei kaituhi kiriata i a Nga Katuarehe me nga Wahi e Kitea ai, koia nei te tuatahi o tetahi terenga e kitea ai te kaimatai kararehe-tumatarau, a Nui Karamena, i puta ai na te pukapuka tapiri tuatahi. Kua tuhi hoki a J.K. Rowling i tetahi pakimaero takitahi, i a The Casual Vacancy, a, ko ia te kaituhi o te terenga puka-taihara, o Strike, i raro i tona ingoa huna, i a Robert Galbraith. Kua hurihia aua pukapuka e rua hei hotaka pouaka whakaata. E hia nei nga tohu me nga whakahonoretanga kua whiwhi ia, tae atu ki tetahi OBE me tetahi Companion of Honour mo ana mahi ki te ao tuhituhi me te ohaoha. Kei Koterangi ratou ko tana whanau e noho ana. J.K. ROWLING is best known as the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which were published between 1997 and 2007. The enduringly popular adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have gone on to sell over 500 million copies, be translated into over eighty languages and made into eight blockbuster films. Alongside the Harry Potter series, she also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. J.K. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry's story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London in 2016 and is now playing worldwide. In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a series featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander, which was inspired by the original companion volume. J.K. Rowling has also written a standalone novel, The Casual Vacancy, and is the author of the Strike crime series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Both have been adapted for television. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and a Companion of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. She lives in Scotland with her family. Te Kaiwhakamāori / Translator Nō ngā iwi o Tūhoe, o Tūhorangi, o Ngāti Wāhiao, o Ngāti Whāwhākia, o Ngāti Porou, o Taranaki, o Ngāti Kahungunu, o Te Whānau a Apanui a Leon Heketū Blake, ā, kua roa ia e whakaako ana i te reo Māori ki ngā tamariki, ki ngā mātua, ki ngā kaiako anō hoki o te motu. He ika-a-Whiro a Leon nō Te Panekiretanga o te Reo. He kaiako hoki ia i reira, ā, ko ia tētahi o te hunga nāna i waihanga te tohu paetahi o Te Paritūtanga o te Reo me te tohu paerua o Te Reo Kairangi i raro i te maru o Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Ko Leon hoki tētahi o ngā mema o te ohu nāna i tiaki te kounga o te whakamāoritanga o te Ture mō te Reo, 2016. He mea whakawhiwhi ōna tohu mātauranga ki a ia e Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, i Papaioea. Kua whakawhiwhia ki a Leon ngā tohu o te whakawhiti reo ā-tuhi, ā-waha hoki e whaimana ana i raro i Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. I te tekau tau kua hipa ake nei, mā tana pakihi o Kounga Ltd, kua tukuna e ia ngā ratonga e pā ana ki te reo Māori. Ko te tikanga o Kounga, ko te eke o te pai ki tōna taumata e tika ana – e whai ana a Leon kia tae atu āna mahi katoa e whai wāhi ai te reo Māori ki taua taumata rā. Tuku ratonga whakawhiti reo ai ia ki ngā pokapū o te kāwanatanga, ā, kua noho ia hei kaitohutohu reo Māori i ētahi hōtaka pouaka whakaata, tae atu ki a SpongeBob TarauPorowhā me Tōra te Mātātoa. I te tau 2017, ka whakamāoritia e ia te pukapuka a Ahorangi Rangi Matamua e kīia nei ko Matariki: Te Whetū Tapu o te Tau. He pārekareka ki a Leon te whakatangi piana, te noho tahi hoki me ana mokopuna. Leon Heketū Blake (Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whāwhākia, Taranaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a long-standing teacher of te reo Māori to young people, adults and teachers across the country. Leon is a graduate of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo (The Institute of Excellence in the Māori Language) and went on to become one of its tutors. He has co-written a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Māori Language Excellence for Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Leon was on the Quality Assurance Group for Te Ture mō te Reo, 2016. He received his qualifications from Massey University in Palmerston North. Leon is a certified translator and interpreter, registered with The Māori Language Commission in New Zealand. For the past decade, he has provided Māori language consultancy services through his company Kounga Ltd. Kounga means quality – and all of Leon’s endeavours work towards achieving this for the Māori language. He provides translation services to government agencies, and he has worked as a Māori language advisor on several television productions, including SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer. In 2017, he translated Professor Rangi Matamua’s book entitled Matariki: The Star of the Year. Leon enjoys playing the piano and spending time with his granddaughters. Ko Kotahi Rau Pukapuka te waka. Ko te pae tawhiti, kia 100 ngā pukapuka reo Māori ka pae ki uta. Kotahi Rau Pukapuka Trust was launched in October 2019 with an audacious goal of producing 100 great books in te reo Māori.