Library shelves and school journals have, for years, been stacked with Jennifer Beck's work. She's an award-winning New Zealand author who's penned more than 50 children's books.
Her picture book The Bantam and the Soldier won the Picture Book Category and the Book of the Year award at the 1997 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.
In 2006 she won the Children's Choice Award - voted for by more than 30,000 children.
And in 2015 she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to children's literature. But her latest book is quite personal - a memoir of "bits" of her life; from early years in wartime, travels overseas, and teaching career to a long marriage to Peter, being mum to four children and a relatively late start to writing.
It's called Bits of String Too Short to Use.
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