Mophead Tu: The Queen's poem

Author(s): Selina Tusitala Marsh

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Follows on from Mophead; Winner of the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction, and Supreme Winner at the 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.


An inspirational graphic memoir written and illustrated by fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.


The journey of Mophead continues! Our best-selling children’s book by poet laureate and fast talking P.I. Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika with ‘BIG hair. Not just curly hair but wild Afakasi hair’. Selina’s Mophead showed how her (and your) difference can make a difference.


Mophead Meets the Queen tells the story of Selina’s visit to Westminster Abbey to perform for the Queen. Aimed at young readers and adults, Selina tells a story about a Pasifika women conquering her fears on one of the biggest stages one can occupy – and thinking through the role of Empire and the Crown in New Zealand and Samoa. Featuring Megan and Harry, Prince Philip and Lockwood Smith, Mophead Meets the Queen will make you laugh, make you cringe and make you think.

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Praise for Mophead: 'funny and empowering with magnificent illustrations' - Hera Lindsay Bird, Newsroom. 'a truly encouraging and rousing story of her extraordinary life' - Dionne Christian, NZ Herald. 'I was immediately obsessed, completely and utterly infatuated. Mophead is an absolute treasure of a book' - Briar Lawry, The Sapling.

General Fields

  • : 9781869409289
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : November 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Selina Tusitala Marsh
  • : HB
  • : Hardback