Juliette MacIver

MacIver, Juliette, is the author of more than 25 much-loved picture books and three middle-grade fiction titles. She has twice won Best Picture Book at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and has made the shortlist on three other occasions. Other awards include the Storylines Notable Book Award, which she has won seven times, and international recognition in 2023 in the form of a White Raven for The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist. In the United States, That’s Not a Hippopotamus! made the shortlist for the Florida Reading Association Awards. Her books have been translated into six languages, including Te Reo Māori, and are available in ten countries.

A very popular visitor to schools, Juliette brings energy, humour and boundless enthusiasm to her presentations, artfully weaving in lessons on story structure and useful ideas for sparking and developing stories. She has done countless workshops with children, focusing on elements of story in general, or sometimes specialising in rhythm and rhyme. She has honed these skills through visiting schools all over Aotearoa since 2011, and also yearly visits to schools in Australia. Her love of children comes through in her ability to connect with her audience, encouraging their creativity and their faith in themselves as people with ideas and something to say.

Juliette holds a Master of Arts in linguistics and a Postgraduate Diploma in teaching English as a second language. She lives in a seaside suburb with her husband Ken and three of their four children, where she does lots of yoga, kitchen-dancing and solving of Rubik’s cubes. 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• How To Be A Cat, illustrated by Carla Martell (Scholastic NZ 2024)
• Beddy-Bye Time in the Kowhai Tree, illustrated by Lily Uivel (Scholastic NZ 2024)
• Faelan the Wolf, Book 1: Odd Wolf Out (Scholastic NZ 2023)
• Faelan the Wolf, Book2: Into the Lockjaws (Scholastic NZ 2023)
• Faelan the Wolf, Book3: Faelan the Fearless (Scholastic NZ 2024)
• Duck Goes Meow, illustrated by Carla Martell (Scholastic NZ 2023)
• The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic NZ 2022)
• We’re Off to Find a Kiwi, illustrated by Kate Wilkinson (Scholastic NZ 2017)
• A Mother’s Day Dilemma, illustrated by Janine Millington  (Scholastic NZ 2017)
• Marmaduke Duck and the Christmas Calamity, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic NZ 2016)
• That’s Not A Hippopotamus!, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Gecko Press 2016)
• Gwendolyn!, illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton (HarperCollins Australia 2016)
• Henry Bob Bobbalich, illustrated by Link Choi (Scholastic NZ 2016)
• Grasshoppers Dance, illustrated by Nina Rycroft (Scholastic NZ 2015)
• Yak and Gnu, illustrated by Cat Chapman (Walker Books Australia 2015)
• Bye! Bye! Bye!, illustrated by Stephanie Junovich (Scholastic NZ 2014)
• The Moose and the Goose, illustrated by Jenny Cooper (Scholastic NZ, 2014)
• Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic 2014)
• Toucan Can!, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Gecko Press 2013)
• The Frog Who Lost His Underpants, illustrated by Cat Chapman (Walker Books Australia 2013)
• Queen Alice’s Palaces, illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (HarperCollins Australia 2013)
• Little Witch, illustrated by Cat Chapman (Walker Books Australia, 2012, Early reader, 64 pages)
• Marmaduke Duck and Bernadette Bear, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic NZ 2011)
• Tom and the Dragon, illustrated by Scott Tulloch (Scholastic NZ 2011)
• Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Scholastic NZ 2010)

AWARDS

White Raven, an internationally recognised recommendation list of outstanding new releases of international children's books
2023 for The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist

The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

2023 Winner, Best Picture Book, for Duck Goes Meow
2017 Winner, Best Picture Book, for That’s Not a Hippopotamus!
2017 Finalist for Gwendolyn!
2014 Finalist for Toucan Can!
2011 Finalist for Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam

Storylines Notable Book Award

2024 for Beddy-Bye Time in the Kōwhai Tree
2023 for Duck Goes Meow
2017 for Henry Bob Bobbalich
2017for Gwendolyn!
2016 for Yak and Gnu
2014 for Toucan Can!
2012 for Tom and the Dragon

Global Picture Book of the Year, awarded by Funky Kids Radio, Australian Broadcaster

2023 Winner for The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist!

Florida Reading Association, Florida, U.S.A.

2017 Finalist for That’s Not a Hippopotamus!

LIANZA Book Awards

2015 Finalist for Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas
2012 Finalist for Marmaduke Duck and Bernadette Bear

Crystal Kite Award, Australia

2011 Finalist for Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam