Fifi Colston

Social Space, R block Wintec

Collingwood Street, Hamilton

Thursday 4 August

6.30pm

Fifi Colston will be in conversation with local author and chair of the Waikato Children's Literature Assocation Alison Robertson. Fifi has a richly varied career as a writer, illustrator, poet, Wearable Art designer, film costumer, television presenter and occasional columnist. She has illustrated numerous books for trade and education and for many years she has presented arts and crafts programming, first on the children’s television show What Now, and later on TVNZ1's Good Morning show.

Her second novel Janie Olive: a recipe for disaster! was a CLFNZ Junior Fiction Notable Book for 2006, as was her third, Glory, which was also an Esther Glen Award finalist in the 2010 LIANZA Book Awards. Fifi's latest non fiction costuming books for kids, Wearable Wonders and Ghoulish Get Ups were finalists in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and Wearable Wonders was the winner of the 2014 Elsie Locke Medal for Non Fiction.

Fifi previously served as a New Zealand Post Book Awards judge, convener of the Wellington Children’s Book Association and a Wellington committee member for the Storylines Festival.

Fifi has been illustrating an ANZAC book written by Jennifer Beck, about a Greek tortoise that came home with a soldier in WW1 and is still alive in Hawkes Bay. The Storylines Festival in August will see her in Christchurch and Dunedin for the Free Family Days.

Fifi's event is supported by Books For Kids with books for sale and signing. This is a free event and you do not need to book.