New Zealand’s Endangered Dolphins

Description

From award-winning writer Maria Gill, and illustrator Marco Ivancic, comes New Zealand’s Endangered Dolphins.

The North Island New Zealand dolphin (Popoto or Māui dolphin) is the most endangered dolphin in the world.  The South Island New Zealand dolphin (Pahu or Hector’s dolphin) is the smallest dolphin on the planet.

Readers will learn more about these playful, intelligent and beautiful mammals and how marine sanctuaries are helping to protect them.

About the Author:
For the last twenty years, Maria Gill has visited schools throughout New Zealand and Australia, sharing her 60+ books with children. In 2020, Storylines awarded Maria the Margaret Mahy Medal for outstanding services to children’s literature. That same year she gained a master’s in creative writing (Honours). Anzac Heroes was named the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults . Eleven of Maria’s other books have received Storylines Notable Book awards. Maria writes full-time in a seaside village north of Auckland. New Zealand’s Endangered Dolphins is her seventh book with Marco Ivancic.

About the Illustrator:
Marco Ivancic is a freelance artist from Wellington, New Zealand. Over the past thirteen years he has illustrated eight books with Maria Gill. This includes the award-winning ANZAC Heroes, which won the 2016 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year prize at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. Their book Abel Tasman was also shortlisted for the 2018 Russell Clark Illustration award at the national book awards.