Jill Harris has had a lifelong love and respect for dogs and their sensitive and knowing association with humans. She wrote Missing Toby to share this experience with children – the ones who already love dogs, and the ones who have yet to discover that delight.
Jill Harris’s first book, Sil, was published to high acclaim and won an Honour Award in the 2006 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. She is a former English teacher and librarian who lives with her husband in Wellington, and she has two sons and four grandchildren.