New Zealand Disasters
Maria Gill
Scholastic NZ
Pub. 2020

July 20, 2021

New Zealand Disasters: Our response, resilience and recovery is written by Maria Gill and illustrated by Marco Ivancic, and is a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. A book like this requires a lot of research because it is full of true facts. Ms. Gill got help from a lot of people and places to get all the information right, like the National Emergency Management Agency and GNS Science and Dr Gill Jolly.

I really enjoyed this book.  It taught me a lot about some disasters I knew about and some that I didn’t.   Read more