Juliette MacIver
Location: Wellington
Preferred audience: Preschool and Years 0-8
A very popular visitor to schools, Juliette brings energy, humour and boundless enthusiasm to her presentations, artfully weaving in lessons on story structure and useful ideas for sparking and developing stories.
She has done countless workshops with children, focusing on elements of story in general, or sometimes specialising in rhythm and rhyme. She has honed these skills through visiting schools all over Aotearoa since 2011, and also through yearly visits to schools in Australia. Her love of children comes through in her ability to connect with her audience, encouraging their creativity and their faith in themselves as people with ideas and something to say.
Juliette is the author of more than 25 much-loved picture books and 3 middle-grade fiction titles. She has twice won Best Picture Book at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and has made the shortlist on four other occasions. Other awards include the Storylines Notable Book Award, which she has won seven times, and international recognition in 2023 in the form of a White Raven for The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist. In the United States, That’s Not a Hippopotamus! made the shortlist for the Florida Reading Association Awards.
Her books have been translated into six languages, including Te Reo Māori, and are available in ten countries.
Juliette holds a Master of Arts in linguistics and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language. She lives in a seaside suburb with her husband Ken and three of their four children, where she does lots of yoga, kitchen-dancing and solving of Rubik’s cubes.
Website: www.juliettemaciverauthor.com
Faelan the Wolf Series
Book 1: Odd Wolf Out
Book 2: Into the Lockjaws
Book 3: Faelan the Fearless
Picture Books
Duck's New Words, Illustrated by Carla Martell, Scholastic 2025
Meri Kirihimete, Kererū, Illustrated by Daron Parton, Allen & Unwin 2025
Little Axel's Axolotl, Illustrated by Christopher Nielsen, Walker Books 2024
How to Be a Cat, Illustrated by Carla Martell, Scholastic 2024
Duck Goes Meow, Illustrated by Carla Martell, Scholastic 2023
The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist!, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Gecko Press 2022
We're Off to Find a Kiwi, Illustrated by Kate Wilkinson, Scholastic 2017
A Mother's Day Dilemma, Illustrated by Janine Millington, Scholastic 2017
Marmaduke Duck and the Christmas Calamity, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Scholastic 2016
Gwendolyn!, Illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton, HarperCollins Australia 2016
That's Not a Hippopotamus!, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Gecko Press 2016 (also available in Te Reo)
Henry Bob Bobbalich, Illustrated by Link Choy, Scholastic 2016
Grasshoppers Dance, Illustrated by Nina Rycroft, Scholastic 2015
Yak and Gnu, Illustrated by Cat Chapman, Walker Books Australia 2015
Bye! Bye! Bye!, Illustrated by Stephanie Junovich, Scholastic 2014
Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Scholastic 2014
The Moose and the Goose, Illustrated by Jenny Cooper, Scholastic 2014
Toucan Can!, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Gecko Press 2013
The Frog Who Lost His Underpants, Ilustrated by Cat Chapman, Walker Books Australia 2013
Queen Alice's Palaces, Ilustrated by Lucia Masciullo, HarperCollins Australia 2013
Little Witch, Ilustrated by Cat Chapman, Walker Books Australia 2012
Tom and the Dragon, Illustrated by Scott Tulloch, Scholastic 2011
Marmaduke Duck and Bernadette Bear, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Scholastic 2011
Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam, Illustrated by Sarah Davis, Scholastic 2010