Bren MacDibble

Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so she is an expert about being a kid on the land. After twenty years in Melbourne, Bren recently sold everything, and now lives and works on a bus travelling around Australia. Howto Bee, her first novel for younger readers, won the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature, and the New Zealand Book Awards Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. She recently published The Dog Runner. Bren also writes for young adults under the name Cally Black.