Billy Bones and the Rock Rascals:a Play

Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand and has loved telling stories all her life. She has published well over a hundred titles and won several major prizes and awards, including The Order of New Zealand, for her internationally acclaimed contribution to children’s literature. She has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal (The Haunting, 1982, and The Changeover, 1984). Margaret lives in the South Island of New Zealand, in a house which she partially built herself, overlooking Governor’s Bay.

Dr Mark Carthew is an award-winning children’s author, poet, playwright, musician and educator well-known for his books and series celebrating oral language and word play. His picture books The Gobbling Tree, ill. by Susy Boyer and The Thing That Goes Ping! ill. by Shane McG, were both awarded the prestigious Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award.