About the Author

Melinda Szymanik is the author of the picture books Clever Moo and The Were-Nana, which won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Children's Choice Award in 2009. A Winter's Day in 1939 is a novel close to Melinda's heart as it is based on her own father's journey across Europe during World War Two. Melinda has written two other novels, Jack the Viking (Scholastic, 2008) and The Half Life of Ryan Davis (Pear Jam, 2011).