category in Ngā Tohu Reo Māori / Māori Language Awards in 2013 and was a finalist in 2012 and 2014. It also won Best Te Reo Resource and the Teachers' Choice Award at the 2015 CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards. Bibliography It’s True! You Can Make Your Own Jokes, illustrated by Ross Kinnaird (Allen & Unwin, 2006) Sabotage! The Diary of Rowan Webb, Auckland, 1985 [My Story] (Scholastic, 2008) Your Mother Didn’t Do That! ill. Brian Lovelock (Walker Books 2009) No Survivors: The Diary of Jackie Simms, Hamilton, 1979 [My Story] (Scholastic, 2009) Maranga Mai! ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2012) Kei te Peke Ahau, ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2012) Anei Ke! ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2012) Me Haere! ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2013) E Hia Nga Moe? ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2013) Matariki, ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2014) He aha tēnei? ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2014) Whai Mai, ill.y Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2014) Mahi Tahi, ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2015) Kōrero Mai, ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2015) Te Wairua o Waitangi, with photographs by Sophie Holt and others (The Writing Bug, 2016) Kia Ora, ill. Deborah Hinde (The Writing Bug, 2016) Taku Mōkai, with photographs by Sophie Holt (The Writing Bug, 2016) Te Taiao, with photographs by Rachael Hale-McKenna (The Writing Bug, 2017) Ngā Āhua, ill. Josh Morgan (The Writing Bug, 2017) Kōrero Māori ai au, ill. Claudia Gadotti (The Writing Bug 2018) Ka Maumahara Tonu, ill. Jasmine Bailey (The Writing Bug, 2018) He Mīharo Te Manu, illustrated with native bird photographs (EduMaxi, 2018) Haere Tonu ill. Miles Lawford (EduMaxi, 2018) He Huarākau illustrated by Stephanie Thatcher (EduMaxi 2019) Picture Dictionary illustrated by Sarah Loughran, Miles Lawford and Stephanie Thatcher (EduMaxi, 2019) Ngā waka aituā illustrated by Francesca da Sacco (EduMaxi, 2019) Kua tae mai te Pō illustrated by Stephanie Thatcher (EduMaxi, 2019 Te Haerenga illustrated by Stephanie Thatcher (EduMaxi, 2020) External links Sharon Holt's Te Reo Singalong website Profile of Sharon Holt on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura website Profile of Sharon Holt on Storylines website References Living people New Zealand children's writers New Zealand women children's writers 1959 births People from Auckland Māori-language writers