First published in 2010, Juliette MacIver is the author of 18 picture books.

In 2017, she won best Picture Book at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for That’s Not a Hippopotamus! She has made the shortlist on three other occasions, for Gwendolyn!, Toucan Can!, and Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam.
Other awards include the Storylines Notable Book Award, which she has received five times, the Joy Cowley Award for which she has been shortlisted four times, and once for the Australian Crystal Kite Award. In 2017, That’s Not a Hippopotamus! made the shortlist for the Florida Reading Association Awards in the United States.

Her books are available in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA, and she has had five titles translated into Mandarin for sale in China.

Juliette also teaches yoga and looks after her four children in a sunny house by the sea.

Selected bibliography:

• Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic 2010).
• Tom and the Dragon illustrated by Scott Tulloch (Scholastic 2011).
• Marmaduke Duck and Bernadette Bear illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic 2011).
• Little Witch illustrated by Cat Chapman (Walker Books Aus 2012).
• Yak and Gnu ilustrated by Cat Chapman (Walker Books 2015)

Awards

• Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 (Picture Book) for Yak and Gnu