Dame Joy Cowley

Joy Cowley. Photo: Rebekah Parsons-King

Aged 6.

Aged 19.

Joy Cowley's first motorbike - her dad bought it, but she wanted something bigger.

With her four children in 1967.

1969

Book signing - one of thousands!

Joy says this Waitaria Bay school boy didn't like books but did like stories. Now he's a sea captain.

In Shishmaref, Alaska.

Halibut caught in Alaska.

Joy Cowley and a king crab caught in Alaska.

Eskimo children in Barrow, Alaska.

At Jean Watson’s orphanage in Nilakottai in the Dindegul district of India.

With teachers in Japan.

Japanese preschoolers rolling in the mud as pigs in Mrs Wishy-washy.

Signing The Duck in the Gun at the Hiroshima Peace Museum.

The Duck in the Gun was published in Japanese by the Hiroshima Peace Museum

Joy Cowley with her children Judith, James, Edward, Sharon

Picture that speaks a thousand words.

Navajo school in Arizona.

New York

At a school in Michigan.

Sounding out the word.

In Wisconsin.

Being brought mealies, made from corn, in South Africa.

With South African teachers.

Aged 65 bungy!

Portrait by Glenda Randerson

Wallace Chapman and Joy Cowley. Photo: Rebekah Parsons-King

Joy Cowley 2018. Photo: Rebekah Parsons-King.