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Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference

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Title
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference
Book Author
Marsh, Selina Tusitala
Illustrator
Marsh, Selina Tusitala
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Extent
88pp
Format
235 x 180mm
Binding
Hardback
Category
Trade Children's, Poetry
Publication Date
October 2019
Rights Available
World excl New Zealand
Rights Enquiry Name and Email

Sam Elworthy
s.elworthy@auckland.ac.nz

Publisher Website
https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz
About the Book

Winner of the supreme award at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children, Mophead is a witty and inspirational graphic memoir of growing up different, a Pasifika woman in a white world, written and illustrated by fast-talking Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.

About the Author

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent. Author of three award-winning poetry collections, pubilshed in New Zealand and the UK, she is an associate professor at the University of Auckland, she performed for the Queen as Commonwealth Poet in 2016 and was New Zealand Poet Laureate, 2017-2018.