“CRAB APPLES” WAS A FINALIST in the 2001 New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Awards, placing it as one of the top 5 children's books of that year in the Junior Fiction category.

I'd like to publicly thank the publishing team of Penny Scown, Frances Chan & Christine Dale for their contributions to its design, editing, etc; which I'm quite sure lifted it over the line and got me into the Awards.

Thank you all so, so much.

(THIS VERSION is not exactly the same, since the original files sank long ago into the electronic swamps of time.)

Cover photography by Geoff Dale, Cover concept by Christine Dale.