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Giselle Clarkson

Giselle Clarkson is a best-selling author, illustrator and cartoonist living in Wairarapa. As well as creating children’s books, she is a regular contributor to the NZ School Journal, New Zealand Geographic magazine and The Sapling. In 2023 she received the Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award, becoming a NZ Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate.

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Selected bibliography:

  • The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions (Gecko Press, 2023)
  • Annual 3 (contributor) (Annual Ink, 2022)
  • The Tiny Woman’s Coat, written by Joy Cowley (Gecko Press, 2021)
  • Egg & Spoon: An Illustrated Cookbook, written by Alexandra Tylee (Gecko Press, 2020)
  • World of Butterflies, written by Courtney Sina Meredith (Allen & Unwin, 2018)
  • Hazel and the Snails, written by Nan Blanchard (Annual Ink/MUP, 2019)
  • The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology (Gecko Press, 2019)
  • Annual 2 (contributor) (Annual Ink, 2017)
  • Annual (contributor) (Gecko Press, 2016)

Awards:

  • Storylines Notable Book Award 2023 for The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions
  • Winner of the New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards Non-fiction category 2021 for Egg & Spoon: An Illustrated Cookbook
  • Storylines Notable Book Award 2021 Non-Fiction list for Egg & Spoon: An Illustrated Cookbook
  • Storylines Notable Book Award 2020 Picture Book list for The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology
  • White Raven 2020 for The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology
  • Finalist NZCYA Book Awards 2020 Picture Book category for The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology
  • Storylines Notable Book Award 2020 Junior Fiction list for Hazel and the Snails

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