Biography - Kyle Mewburn

Kyle Mewburn was born in Brisbane, Australia. He completed his Bachelor of Business at the Queensland Institute of Technology. Mewburn travelled in Europe and the Middle East before settling in New Zealand in 1990.

Mewburn has been a full-time writer since 1997. Prior to that his resume includes time spent as journalist, EFL teacher, Environment Centre manager, dishwasher, interviewer, traffic surveyor, apple-picker, machine operator and Kibbutznik.

He won the third Joy Cowley Award in 2005, presented by Storylines Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand for the development of a picture book text.

Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! won both the Picture Book Category, and the Children's Choice Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2007.

Kyle Mewburn lives in Central Otago.

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Bibliography

Don’t tell God I’m an atheist – universal stories (Nuthouse Publications, 1995)

The Hoppleplop (Scholastic, 2004).

The Bear in the Room Next Door (2006)

Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!( Scholastic, 2006).

Muddletopia (Kiwi Bites S.) (2007)

Charlotte Frisbee and the Slime Attack (Kiwi Bites S.) (2007)

The Eleventh Sheep (2008)

No Room for a Mouse(2008)

Duck's Stuck! (Scholastic, 2008)