1. Joy Cowley has published several collections of short stories, including Two of a Kind and Heart Attack and Other Stories.
14 Facts About Joy Cowley
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Joy Cowley has written forty-one picture books, such as The Duck in the Gun, The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch, Salmagundi, and The Cheese Trap.
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Joy Cowley has been actively involved in teaching early reading skills and helping those with reading difficulties, in which capacity she has written approximately 500 basal readers.
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In 1990, Joy Cowley was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, and in the 1992 New Year Honours she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to children's literature.
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In 1993, Joy Cowley became the third recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award, whose winners present and publish a lecture concerning children's literature or literacy.
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Joy Cowley's lecture was titled Influences Archived 6 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
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Joy Cowley has won the overall Book of the Year award three times at the various incarnations of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: first for The Silent One in 1982; then for Hunter in 2006; and finally for Snake and Lizard in 2008.
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Joy Cowley won the Children's Choice award in this category for Friends: Snake and Lizard in 2010.
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Joy Cowley won the now defunct Fiction category in 1992 for Bow Down Shadrach, and the Picture Book category in 2002 for Brodie.
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In 2009, when the New Zealand government restored titular honours, Joy Cowley declined redesignation as a dame.
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Joy Cowley was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to New Zealand, in the 2018 New Year Honours.
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Joy Cowley has been married three times, first at twenty years old to dairy farmer Ted Joy Cowley, with whom she had four children.
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In 1989, Joy Cowley married Terry Coles, a former Catholic priest.
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Joy Cowley lived with him, and an assortment of animals, for many years in the Marlborough Sounds, but in 2004 they moved to a wharf apartment in Wellington so Coles could be nearer medical services.