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News Update June 2024

Our congratulations to agency illustrator Lily Uivel for the shortlisting of Te Pīkari Pipi (written by Angie Belcher, translated by Pānia Papa (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Ngāti Mahuta) in the WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION TE KURA POUNAMU AWARD FOR TE REO MĀORI category (NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2024).

Congratulations also to agency illustrator Rebecca Gibbs for the shortlisting of Rere Atu Taku Poi! Let My Poi Fly! (written by Tangaroa Paul, Muriwhenua) in the NZSA BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD category (NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2024).

Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held in Wellington on Wednesday 14 August 2024.

News update November 2023

Our congratulations go to our agency illustrator Jane Smith who illustrated Tails of Tangleby Gardens Book 2 (written by Sue Heazlewood and published by Auckram Publishing) which won Best Childrens' Cookbook - Oceania Category and came 2nd overall for Illustrated Cookbook in the Gourmand World's Best Cookbook Awards, in Saudi Arabia.

News update November 2023

Sandra Morris Illustration Agency is proud to announce that the book Once Upon A Wickedness, (Penguin Random House NZ) written by Fleur Beale, and illustrated by the agency's illustrator, Lily Uivel was listed as a NZ Storylines Notable book for 2023. Our congratulations go to Lily.

News Update September 2023

We are thrilled to announce that our illustrator Alba G Celdran has been awarded winner of the Hachette Margaret Mahy Illustration Award 2023.

The judging panel said Celdran's illustrations of Margaret Mahy's children’s book Seventeen Kings and Forty-Two Elephants were mesmerising, and full of humour.

They also said the winner’s illustrations had a fantastic sense of movement. "Her clever use of the kings and the animals led us on a very exciting, very humorous and very vibrant adventure."

Congratulations to Alba. We look forward to seeing her work in the final publication of this book.