Each year a number of writers are chosen to be profiled in the New Zealand Writer’s Files. I’m grateful to Read NZ for including me on the site.
Excerpt: “During her time in broadcasting Liz worked at TVNZ in Children’s Media roles, including Programmer for Children’s time on TV2, and Kids Media Analyst. She then worked in production on some of New Zealand’s most iconic TV shows, including Let’s Get Inventing and for nine seasons of Piha Rescue.
Liz created a series of “radio play” style audio stories for children about a curious rabbit called Eardrop, who listens to sounds. She worked with a team of educators to create a style that helps develop language and listening skills, first producing Sounds of the Country, then Sounds of the City and Sounds of the Home. Parents throughout New Zealand credit Eardrops for new words, extra sleep and peaceful car journeys.
In 2016 Liz was the recipient of an AMP Scholarship. As a result she chose to produce the Eardrops stories in Te Reo Māori, releasing Ngā Tangi o Te Tuawhenua, Ngā Tangi o Te Taone and Ngā Tangi o Te Kāinga during Māori Language week in 2017. In addition, Liz created a new bilingual set of Eardrops stories, designed to teach sets of te reo Māori words to English speakers. Sounds of the Tuawhenua, Sounds of the Tāone and Sounds of the Kāinga have been widely embraced and the entire Eardrops te reo Māori series is in use in homes and schools throughout New Zealand.” Read more here …
