Juliette MacIver is a Wellington-based author and mother of four. She majored in Linguistics at Victoria University and has a diploma in teaching English. Juliette is the author of popular Scholastic picture books the Marmaduke Duck series, Grasshoppers Dance, The Moose and the Goose, Bye! Bye! Bye! and Tom and the Dragon.
Juliette’s picture books have been awarded two Storylines Notable Book Awards and have been shortlisted for the NZ Children’s Book Awards, the LIANZA Children’s Book Awards and the Crystal Kite Award.
Sarah Davis grew up in New Zealand and moved to Australia in 2004 where she
began work as a freelance illustrator. Sarah is the illustrator of the much-loved Marmaduke Duck series and has been nominated for awards both in New Zealand and Australia. Sarah lives in Sydney with her three children, her mathematician husband, and assorted animals.
Publication October 2016
ISBN 978-1-77543-390-3
NZ RRP $19.00
Binding Paperback
Format 250 x 240 mm
Extent 32 pp
Age 3-7 years
Oh no! Santa and the elves are buried in snow …
it’s a high-drama Christmas calamity, whatever
can we do?
That daredevil duck with pluck is back – and this time, he and Bernadette Bear and their ragtag band of friends are charged with saving Christmas! But how are they going to fly Santa’s sleigh? Quick-thinking Marmaduke comes to the rescue.
“It’s very difficult to write rhyming text that scans well, but Juliette MacIver has managed to produce text that is a delight to read aloud. This is a book to savour.” — Magpies
“The resonance, continuing echoing of sound would make it great fun to read aloud to a child and I think any child listening to it will pick up on it with pleasure.” — The late Margaret Mahy, about Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam
