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ELSIE LOCKE(17 August 1912 – 8 April 01)Elsie Locke’s writing career became firmly established when in the 1960s, she began contributing to the New Zealand School Journal (published by the School Publication Branch of the Department of Education). She was commissioned by the School Publication Branch to write a series of historical booklets from 1962 to 1968, designed to educate children about New Zealand’s social history. It was while writing these that Locke realised her lack of knowledge about Māori language, culture, history, and spirituality. This led her to study the language,and incorporate biculturalism as a central feature of her writing long before it was fashionable to do so. According to The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, she expressedthe Māori point of view “with sympathy and insight in novelsthat in this respect were in advance of general perceptionsand political correctness". Elsie Locke was one of New Zealand’s best known children’swriters a.....