There Was a Time

Published by Penguin Books, 1999. Spine faded, foxing at page edges and on endpapers. General age discolouration to pages.

A autobiographical memoir of the childhood of the international award winning children's book author, leading authority on children's reading, and novelist. She was born in 1925 and brought up in a large working class family. Her focus was books and reading from an early age, and leading a full life in 1930s Auckland.