Fifi Colston

Fifi Colston has had a richly varied career as a writer, illustrator, poet, Wearable Arts designer and costumer for the film industry. For seven years she presented arts and crafts on the children’s television programme What Now, and these days she is a regular arts and crafts presenter on TV1’s Good Morning show.

She is active in the writing and illustration community, serving as the President of the New Zealand Illustrators’ Guild, the Convener of the Wellington Children’s Book Association and a Wellington committee member for the Storylines Festival.

Fifi has illustrated over 25 books; her work includes illustrations for the School Journal and trade publishers. In 2004 she graduated from Victoria University with an MA in Scriptwriting. Fifi is a published junior fiction novelist; her most recent work ‘Glory’ was shortlisted for the LIANZA Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. Fifi is currently working on more book illustration commissions and running art and writing workshops with schools.

Selected bibliography:

• Old Man and the Cat text by Anthony Holcroft (Whitcoulls 1984).  
• Rain text by Barbara Hill (Ashton Scholastic 1984).
• Oldest Garden in China text by Anthony Holcroft (Whitcoulls 1985) 1985
• Mr Magee Came Home for his Tea text by Janet Slater Redhead (Ashton Scholastic 1986).  
• Not Without Randolph text by Ruth Corrin (Ashton Scholastic 1993).  
• Fifi's Crafty Arts (Ashton Scholastic 1995).
• Fifi's Crafty Arts 2 (Ashton Scholastic 1995).
• Fifi's Festive Fun (Ashton Scholastic 1995).  
• Midnight Feast text by Elizabeth Pulford (Scholastic 1996).  
• Get Real Paddy Manson text by Ruth Corrin (HarperCollins 1996).
• Toroa text by Te Aorere Riddell & photographs by Brian Gunson (Huia 2001).
• Verity's Truth (Scholastic 2003).
• Janie Olive: A Recipe for Disaster! (Scholastic 2005).  
• Waka Wairua: The spirit Waka text by Yvonne Morrison (Reed 2005).  
• Papa's Island text by Melani Drewery (Reed 2006).  
• Itiiti's Gift text by Melanie Drewery (Reed 2006).
• Glory (Scholastic 2009).

Awards:

• Storylines Notable Books 2006 Junior Fiction list for Janie Olive.
• Storylines Notable Books 2007 Picture Books list for Itiiti's Gift.
• Storylines Notable Books 2010 Junior Fiction list for Glory.
• Esther Glen Award 2010 finalist for Glory.

Website

• www.fificolston.blogspot.com
   

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