Angela Sunde

Angela Sunde spent her childhood jumping puddles and climbing trees in her family’s vast orchard on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand. An award-winning language and literacy teacher with experience in both primary and secondary education, Angela is the author of Snap Magic and Pond Magic, and illustrator of The Coral Sea Monster – Australian national winner of the Write-a-Book-in-a-Day Award 2011.

Angela’s debut novel, Pond Magic, was part of Penguin Australia's popular Aussie Chomps series. A mix of humour, suspense and magic, it portrays the topsy-turvy life of a pre-teen as she struggles to overcome her cultural intolerance towards her live-in exchange student.

In 2014 its stand-alone sequel, Snap Magic, was released – a bewitchingly funny coming-of-age story. “While Snap Magic deals with mature themes such as bullying, trust, friend and parent relationships, developing adolescence, and preoccupation with physical appearance, it does this with gentle and sensitive age-appropriate humour. This book could be the starting point for first mother-daughter discussions.” – Sandy Fussell, author of the ‘Samurai Kids’ series.

Awarded a May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellowship in 2013, and an Illustrator Residency at Pinerolo Children’s Book Cottage in 2014, Angela is currently working on a picture book and a mid-grade historical fantasy novel.