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Seventy books later and 

Bishop is still creating 

Award-winning 

children’s book author 

and illustrator Gavin 

Bishop tells New 

Zealand’s stories for 

children. He talks 

to reporter Emily 

Moorhouse about 

his lifelong passion 

for art, his first time 

seeing his books on 

sale and using his 

grandchildren’s ideas 

for new books 

GAVIN BISHOP knew he 

wanted to be an artist when he 

was four. 

Seventy-two years on, more 

than 70 published books and 

countless national awards later, 

he is continuing to do just that. 

Bishop was born in 

Invercargill, but moved to 

Christchurch to study at the 

Canterbury University School 

of Fine Arts and graduated with 

an honours degree in painting 

in 1976. 

He then became an art 

teacher at Te Aratai College, 

formerly Linwood College, 

before moving to Christ’s 

College, when another art 

teacher suggested he write a 

book for children. 

“It was kind of weird because 

it was just out of the blue that 

PROLIFIC: Gavin Bishop in his in-home studio with two of his recent books Atua and E Hoa, and with Mr Fox in 1982. 

PHOTOS: KAREN CASEY, CHRISTCHURCH CITY LIBRARIES 

this person said this and it 

struck a chord with me,” Bishop 

said. 

“I suddenly realised that was 

something I’d been thinking 

about doing for a really long 

time, but I had never got around 

to doing it.” 

English publishing company 

Oxford University Press (OUP) 

expressed it was looking for 

material that had a “strong 

New Zealand flavour” and had 

representatives visit Wellington 

at the time. 

Bishop liked the idea of this, 

as he hadn’t grown up reading 

New Zealand books. 

“When I was a child all of 

the books I read came from 

England, Australia, America 

mainly. It was a very exciting 

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Ten students made under 18 

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‘Writing books for our children with 

stories about us is really important’ 

• From page 1 

So Bishop got in contact with 

OUP and made a start on his 

first book about a sheep, as sheep 

farming was a major industry in 

the 1980s. He called it Bidibidi. 

However, the book took a few 

years to publish as Bishop had to 

learn how to write and illustrate 

for children, something an OUP 

editor helped him with. 

The second book Bishop wrote 

he set in Linwood, where he was 

still teaching, and even used the 

old Edmonds baking powder 

factory on Ferry Rd as one of the 

major buildings in the book. He 

called it Mrs McGinty and the 

Bizarre Plant. 

Bishop said writing this book 

was “much more straightforward” 

as he began to get the 

hang of creating stories for children, 

and it was even published 

before Bidibidi. 

Bishop continued to teach 

art, while working on his books 

at the same time, often in the 

school holidays and at night after 

dinner. 

In 1998, he decided to pursue 

writing and illustrating books 

full-time. He remembers handing 

in his letter of resignation 

to the headmaster at Christ’s 

College. 

“He rung me up and said ‘are 

you sure you want to do this’ and 

I said ‘yup’ and he said ‘would 

you like me to tear the letter up’ 

and I said ‘no, I’m really going to 

go ahead with this’.” 

That year Bishop wrote a book 

called The House that Jack Built, 

which looked at the impacts of 

colonialism on New Zealand. 

“It was very successful and 

in fact it’s being used still, in 

schools. That’s a book that’s been 

around for quite some time and 

looks as if it’s going to be still.” 

Bishop recalls the moment he 

knew he wanted to be an artist at 

the age of four when a signwriter 

came to the small town of 

Kingston, south of Queenstown, 

where he lived. 

The signwriter came to paint 

some signs outside the Kingston 

pub – which has since burnt 

down – and while he was there, 

he was asked to paint a big mural 

on the wall above the bar. 

Bishop hadn’t seen a real 

painting before and was allowed 

to go and watch the signwriter at 

work. 

“I used to stand watching him 

paint this big scene of the lake 

up on the wall and I found that 

absolutely magical,” he said. 

“That’s when I think I thought, 

that’s what I want to do.” 

Because Bishop was taller than 

most kids his age, lots of adults 

would tell him he should become 

a policeman. 

“That’s all you had to be, you 

didn’t have to be fit or smart 

or clever or anything like that, 

you just had to be tall and I 

would say ‘I don’t want to be 

a policeman, I want to be an 

artist’.” 

DREAM JOB: Gavin Bishop knew he wanted to be an artist when he was four-years-old, 

after watching a signwriter paint a mural at the local pub in Kingston. 

PHOTO: KAREN CASEY 

Bishop remembers the first 

time he saw his book on sale at 

the old Whitcoulls on Cashel St, 

which was demolished after the 

earthquakes. 

“I can remember walking 

through there and seeing my 

first book for sale and they had 

a mountain of it, they had like 

a hundred or more copies all 

stacked up and stacked on the 

floor I think.” 

He can’t remember if it was 

Bidibidi or Mrs McGinty and the 

Bizarre Plant, but he asked the 

shop assistant if they wanted 

him to sign the books. 

“I sat down and spent ages 

signing these books, and what 

was wonderful was they all sold 

quite quickly and they had to get 

some more in,” he said. 

Bishop works from his studio 

at his Cashmere home with 

his wife Vivien, who he met at 

art school. She was also an art 

teacher, for Avonside Girls’ High 

School. 

When asked what she thought 

about his achievements he 

laughed and said he didn’t know. 

“We don’t talk about it much, 

it’s just part of our lives. 

“Sometimes I’ll grab her to 

look at my work and get her to 

tell me what she thinks is wrong 

with it,” he said. 

Bishop and Vivien have 

three daughters and three 

grandchildren, who have all 

grown up reading his books. 

On a couple of occasions 

his grandchildren have made 

suggestions for books they would 

like to read, which Bishop has 

carried out. 

When his grandson George 

was four he asked Bishop why 

he hadn’t written a story about a 

digger. 

“He said ‘well I think you 

FAMILY: Gavin Bishop with 

his daughter Alexandra and 

his book Chicken Licken 

in 1984. PHOTO: CCL 

should write a book about a 

digger because I’d like to read it’ 

and I thought ‘oh okay’,” Bishop 

said. 

Soon after Bruiser was 

published, a book about an 

angry digger that becomes 

caring and sensitive towards the 

end of the story. 

Bishop said when he first started 

authoring children’s books, he 

was keen to write his own stories 

about things he wanted to write 

about. 

He has stories based off his 

Māori whakapapa and has rewritten 

old fairy tales. However, 

in recent years, he has been 

commissioned to write books by 

his publishers, which he said has 

been a new challenge. 

His latest book is called E Hoa, 

with te reo Māori and English 

versions available. It is part of a 

series for very young children, 

which will be released on 

Wednesday. 

The book aims at showing 

children how to talk about 

feelings through a friendship 

between a child and their dog. 

Bishop tends to work on one 

book at a time, preferring to 

finish one concept before moving 

onto the next. 

He said his work can become 

quite consuming and often has 

a hard time switching off from 

thinking about his books. 

“I’m always working on it, it’s 

hard to let it go.” 

Of the 70-plus books Bishop 

has created, several have 

been translated into different 

languages, mostly to other 

European languages, but recently 

he has had some translated into 

Asian languages. 

Bruiser has been translated 

and sold in China, Taiwan 

and Korea and another book 

called Teddy One Eye, which is 

a disguised biography about his 

life seen through the eyes of his 

teddy bear, has been translated 

and sold in China. 

“I don’t hear from anyone in 

China who has read it but the 

fact that it’s been reprinted a 

couple of times means that it’s 

obviously selling well enough,” 

he said. 

Bishop believes a country is 

made up partly by its literature 

and arts, something he thinks 

New Zealanders tend to forget 

– instead, getting carried away 

with devotion to sport. 

“I think in a hundred years 

time people will still know who 

Kiri Te Kanawa is and who Janet 

Frame was and who Joy Cowley 

was. They’ll still know those 

people because their work will 

still be speaking to the people in 

the future.” 

When asked if he thought he 

would ever have more than 70 

books published he admitted 

he just started and “sort of kept 

going”. 

It never occurred to him how 

successful he would be, although 

it was “nice to be recognised” 

through various awards, he said. 

He has recently been named 

a finalist in the Publishers 

Association of New Zealand 

2022 awards for best children’s 

book, which will be announced 

in September. He has previously 

won two PANZ awards for 

the best use of illustration in 

a children’s book in 2000 and 

2009. 

When asked if retirement was 

approaching at the ripe old age 

of 76, he laughed and said he 

wouldn’t know what to do with 

himself if he stopped creating 

books. 

“At the moment I’m managing 

to produce work that’s okay and 

I’ll keep going while I’m doing 

that. I mean it keeps me alive, it’s 

challenging and it’s interesting 

and I get to meet interesting 

people,” he said. 

“Writing books for our 

children with stories about us is 

really important.”

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Learning about trees 

Five-and-six-year-old pupils from St 

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Solution 153: ace, age, agley, ale, aye, cage, cagey, 

cagy, cay, clay, cleg, gal, gale, gay, gel, lac, lace, lacy, 

lag, lay, lea, leg, LEGACY, ley, lye, yea. 

letters, including plurals, can you make 

from the six letters, using each only 

No words beginning with a capital are 

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter 

word. 

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16 17 18 19 

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24 25 

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Across 

1. Idle talk (6) 

4. Continually annoy (6) 

9. Foreshadow (4) 

10. Not logical (10) 

11. Acknowledge (6) 

12. Log-in identification (8) 

13. Cut up (9) 

15. Ursine creature (4) 

16. Serenaded (4) 

17. Restraint (9) 

21. Cellar (8) 

22. Geological left-over (6) 

24. Incognito (10) 

25. Succulent plant (4) 

26. Sounds alike (6) 

27. Youngsters (6) 

Decoder 

Down 

1. Italian dumplings (7) 

2. Brushed leather (5) 

3. Foolish (7) 

5. National song (6) 

6. Embellishment (9) 

7. Stutter (7) 

8. Quarrelsome (13) 

14. Genuinely (9) 

16. Wrench (7) 

18. Intense fire (7) 

19. Disastrous (7) 

20. Save from danger (6) 

23. Tunnel (5) 

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No.154 

25 22 9 18 4 20 

Crossword 

Across: 1. Gossip, 4. 

Harass, 9. Bode, 10. 

Irrational, 11. Accept, 12. 

Username, 13. Dissected, 

15. Bear, 16. Sang, 17. 

Stricture, 21. Basement, 

22. Fossil, 24. Undercover, 

25. Aloe, 26. Rhymes, 27. 

Youths. 

Down: 1. Gnocchi, 2. 

Suede, 3. Idiotic, 5. Anthem, 

6. Adornment, 7. Stammer, 

8. Argumentative, 14. 

Sincerely, 16. Spanner, 18. 

Inferno, 19. Ruinous, 20. 

Rescue, 23. Shaft. 

WordBuilder 

deft, die, diet, dig, edit, eft, 

fed, fetid, FIDGET, fie, fig, 

fit, get, gift, GIFTED, git, ted, 

teg, tide, tie, tied, tig. 

Sudoku 

Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different 

letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet. 

DECODER 

Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers. 

The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented 

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3 15 16 3 13 8 24 4 5 20 15 

25 21 4 14 10 9 1 12 9 

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Pot-roast chicken wings 

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Serves 4-6 

Ingredients 

1 tbsp butter 

2kg chicken wings 

1 garlic bulb 

2 leeks 

20 button mushrooms 

2 carrots 

2 tbsp olive oil 

375ml dry white wine 

500ml chicken stock 

1 bunch tarragon 

Directions 

Preheat the oven to 220 deg 

C. Turn the wings under the 

chicken and truss for roasting. 

Rub the chicken with the butter 

and whole garlic bulb, halved, 

then season. 

Place leeks (chopped into 

3cm pieces), carrots (chopped 

into 3cm pieces), mushrooms 

and more garlic in a roasting 

dish. Place chicken on top of 

vegetables, drizzle with olive oil 

and then pour the wine around 

the chicken (not over the top). 

Roast for 30min, then pour 

the hot chicken stock around the 

chicken. Reduce the oven to 180 

deg C, roast for another 30 to 

45min. 

Lift out the chicken and 

vegetables (keep covered and 

warm) and strain the pan juices 

into a saucepan. Simmer over 

medium heat until reduced and 

thickened to make a glossy 

gravy. 

Add the tarragon leaves and 

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vegetables. 

Roasted cherry tomato 

quiche with chickpea 

crust 

Serves 4-6 

Ingredients 

Chickpea crust: 

¾ cup (135gm) dried chickpeas, 

soaked in cold water overnight, 

or 400gm tin cooked chickpeas, 

rinsed, or 1 ½ cups cooked 

chickpeas 

¼ cup (35gm) fine brown rice 

flour 

2 tbsp tapioca flour or glutenfree 

organic cornflour 

½ tsp gluten-free baking powder 

1 and ½ tbsp olive oil 

½ tsp fine sea salt 

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half 

2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 

1 tbsp finely chopped thyme 

3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 

4 large free-range eggs 

¾ cup (185ml) coconut, almond 

or rice milk 

½ cup firmly packed basil 

leaves, finely shredded plus 

extra, to serve 

2 tsp dijon mustard 

2 tbsp finely chopped chives 

2 tbsp finely chopped flat-leaf 

parsley 

½ tsp fine sea salt 

¼ tsp ground black pepper 

Directions 

Drain and rinse chickpeas. 

Place in a saucepan and cover 

with plenty of fresh cold water. 

Bring to the boil, skimming off 

any foam that rises to the surface. 

Reduce to a simmer and cook for 

25-35 minutes or until tender but 

not falling apart. Drain well and 

set aside to cool slightly. Preheat 

oven to 180 deg C. Grease a 32 x 

12 cm loose-bottom fluted tart tin 

or a 23cm round loose-bottom 

tart tin. 

Arrange tomatoes cut-side-up 

on an oven tray, scatter with garlic 

and thyme, drizzle with olive 

oil and season well with sea salt 

and freshly ground black pepper. 

Roast for 30min or until tender 

and slightly dried. 

To make the crust, pulse chickpeas 

in a food processor until 

finely ground (a few lumps are 

okay). Transfer to a bowl and add 

brown rice flour, tapioca flour 

and baking powder. Mix thoroughly 

with your hands, add oil 

and salt and mix to a stiff dough. 

Press evenly into the tin, lining 

the base and sides and using the 

back of a spoon to firmly press 

down. Bake for 6-8 minutes to 

lightly set. Scatter two-thirds of 

the roast tomatoes and herbs over 

the pastry base. 

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Add delicious blue cheese 

for a tasty winter special 

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pie 

Serves 4 

Ingredients 

Filling: 

25g butter 

1 leek, sliced 

3 cloves garlic, crushed 

4 chicken thighs, diced to 1cm 

thickness 

¼ cup flour 

1 cup chicken stock 

2 Tbsp lemon zest 

2 tsp Dijon mustard 

100g blue cheese, crumbled 

Pastry: 

500g puff pastry 

1 egg whisked with 1 Tbsp water 

2 tsp toasted sesame seeds 

Directions 

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SCHOOL OPTIONS - early & middle years 2022 

Welcome to Casebrook 

Intermediate School 

Accepting enrolments 

for 2023 

We are specialists in Year 7 & 8 education. 

Our staff and resourcing are all tailored 

for this stage of personal development 

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learning opportunities to create a wellrounded 

and engaged individual. 

Our learning environment is supported 

by a strong focus on our school values 

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in their community. 

Our school environment is one where 

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the students at Casebrook are supported 

and encouraged to become self-motived, 

independent learners. 

We value the partnership between home 

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environment where we foster feelings of 

pride and belonging. We are sure you will 

enjoy being a part of our community and 

would welcome the opportunity to meet 

with you to discuss your child’s future at 

Casebrook. 

Sharon Keen - Casebrook Intermediate 

School Principal 

Christian School 

37 Cunningham Place, Halswell 8025 

Phone: 03 322 8735 

Email: admin@oaklands.school.nz 

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Community • Active thinking • Respect • Excellence 

 

 

We are focused on an excellent 

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‘Grow in Wisdom and Stature, Stand 

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You may have heard about us, come 

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SCHOOL OPTIONS - early & middle years 2022 

Empowering 

girls to learn, 

live and lead 

Bridget Compton-Moen is head of St 

Margaret’s College Junior School, which 

caters for girls in Years 0-6. 

Having joined SMC in January of 

this year, and with more than 25 years’ 

teaching experience in New Zealand and 

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the warm, supportive and family focused 

environment on campus. 

Bridget says: “The girls flourish as 

a result of the small class sizes and 

individual classrooms, which enable our 

specialist Junior School teachers to form 

deep relationships with their students. 

Our teachers really understand the girls’ 

specific learning needs, and are committed 

to their wellbeing. 

“This year we have implemented a 

structured literacy approach for our 

Year 4-6 students, having seen incredible 

success with our Year 1-3 girls. This is 

an approach based on years of scientific 

research that really enables girls to crack 

the code of reading from the get-go.” 

“We are intent on getting the 

core curriculum right, ensuring the 

girls are engaged in their learning, 

with a strong grasp on literacy and 

numeracy and the skills they need to 

succeed through Junior School and 

into our Middle School.” 

Another recent addition to the 

Junior School is Friendology, 

an award-winning wellbeing 

programme focused on healthy 

friendships. SMC is the only school 

in New Zealand currently to offer 

this programme, which has been 

embedded throughout the Junior 

School. 

An extensive programme of 

co-curricular activities, including 

sports, performing arts, kapa haka, and 

computational thinking, supports the girls 

in making connections, while enabling 

them to discover their passions. SMC 

has a strong focus on holistic education, 

designed to strengthen character, service 

and leadership. As part of this a Junior 

School Council, made up of Year 12-13 

students, has responsibility for building 

connections with their ‘little sisters’ and 

acting as mentors. 

“I’m thrilled to be working alongside our 

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forward to working with families who are 

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If you would like further information 

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daughter at St Margaret’s College Junior 

School, please contact Admissions 

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Inspiring 

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photographer to ensure we can show the property to its best 

What does your Auction campaign package include? 

• Trademe.co.nz | Silver package 

• BeSeen | Digital Google Display Ads & Google 

retargeting 

• Professional Photography 

• Social Media | Facebook & Instagram 

• Detailed Buyer’s Information File 

• LIM & Title 

• Auctioneers Fees 

• For Sale Signboard • Open Home Brochures 

• Just Listed Flyers • Database Direct Marketing 

Your property will also appear on multiple websites 

including: 

• trademe.co.nz • raywhite.co.nz • realestate.co.nz 

• trademe.co.nz • homes.co.nz • oneroof.co.nz 

• juwai.com • hougarden.com 

How does this work? 

Upon your home selling unconditionally (whether at or 

after the Auction) with our agency and we will take the 

cost of the $1,999 Auction campaign off your selling fees! 

Vanessa Golightly, 

Business Owner 

and Licensee Agent 

Ray White Papanui 

027 664 9292 

The rental market is changing - again 

potential, as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. We 

also add a good description and make it easy for tenants to 

enquire and book in for a viewing. 

Equally important is that tenants want to rent from you. This 

week alone we have had two phone calls into the office from 

tenants who are renting through private landlords asking 

us to manage the property they are renting - that is not the 

tenants decision of course, but there is a real shift with tenants 

understanding the value of renting through a good property 

management company. 

While the rent amount is of course always an important factor, 

we still need to ensure that the property is financially viable for 

a landlord as if it ends up costing them too much they may have 

no choice but to exit the rental market and then we end up back 

in a cycle where we once again have a shortage of properties 

for tenants to rent! 

Katrina Green, 

Operations Manager 

Property Management 

027 606 0030 


7 Winston Avenue | Level 1 

(above Black & White Coffee Cartel) 

Contact Us 

03 352 0567 

papanui.nz@raywhite.com 

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Scan to book in your 

free appraisal with one 

of our team 

Recently sold by the Ray White Papanui Team 

273 Hills Road, Mairehau 

Tracy Thomson 

45B Southbrook Road, Rangiora 

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson 

108 Ensors Road, Waltham 

Vanessa Golightly & Maria Paterson 

26 Hollard Crescent, Lincoln 

Tracy Thomson 

Proud to offer 

SuperGold Card 

Holders a 10% 

discount

Nor'West News: July 28, 2022

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