Shortlisted : Russell Clark Medal Shortlisted : Young People's Non-Fiction Award (NZ Library & Information Association) Children's Book Awards 1997

Godwit ( Random House NZ ) © 1996 ISBN: 0 908877 97 8

Design, Storyboarding, Pencils, Inks, Lettering, & Colours: Chris Slane. Script: Robert Sullivan. Colours: Jonathan Paynter, Bill Paynter. Technical Direction and fonts: Bill Paynter.

"This Is a courageous production from Godwit that validates an Illustrative format, relevant and intensely appealing to older children, teenagers and the elusive 'generation X'. It has been beautifully designed and produced right down to the end papers which enhance the composition...This dark and mysterious book gives the creation stories of maui a new perspective which will be popular with secondary school students." -NZLIA judges

Sample pages.

Print run: 10,000 copies - ( 5,000 copies hardback - 1996 & 5,000 softback -1997 ) HB NZ$24.95, SB NZ$14.95. 297 x 210mm Colour

"The story is not just good because it is maori and it is not special because it is graphic. Both the story and the way it is told can hold their own anywhere with examples of a great tale well delivered in this medium. This is a deceptively sophisticated little number." -WK Hastings - The Dominion.