We recently enjoyed an interesting and engaging session with award-winning Aotearoa author/illustrator extraordinaire Ruth Paul, in which she shared many fascinating insights gleaned from her celebrated career as an author and illustrator. She took us on a short virtual tour showing her semi-rural Wellington farmhouse, studio and ever-expanding area of native bush which has recently become home to around a dozen relocated kiwi! (Ruth explained her participation in the Government’s emissions trading scheme helps to supplement her book-industry income.) After starting out illustrating three picture books written by others, Ruth has since worked exclusively on books she both writes and illustrates and now has more than 24 of these picture books to her credit. Ruth's titles have been published in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, the UK, China and Korea, with translations in five languages. We heard about some of the books she has coming out this year, including fiction pictur...