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About the author: Tessa Duder won a silver medal in butterfly at Cardiff’s Empire Games in1958. She trained as a journalist and has published more than forty works offiction and non-fiction for both children and adults. Her best-known work Alex (1987) was adapted for a 1993 movie, and recentbooks include biographies of Margaret Mahy, Sir Peter Blake, Auckland’s‘First Lady’ Sarah Mathew and Captain James Cook. Her awards includemultiple New Zealand children’s book prizes, the Katherine MansfieldFellowship to Menton (France), an Artists to Antarctica award, the OBE andan honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato. She has four daughtersand two grandchildren and lives in Auckland, where she enjoys sailing,concert and theatre-going, teaching creative writing and reading.