Writer and illustrator Jeanette Goode lives on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After a 30-year career in the film industry, she decided to follow her passion and began writing & illustrating children's books. A Little Blue is the first book in a series created by Jeanette about threatened species of Aotearoa New Zealand. It is endorsed by the West Coast Penguin Trust, with a donation from every sale of the book going toward conservation and protection of the korora, little blue penguins. "When I wrote the first draft, I was living on the Coast Road, West Coast, in a little blue cottage which was built in the rocks very close to the sea. The waves would sometimes go right under the cottage. The penguins were nesting in the rocks close by. I got to know their comings and goings It was the place this story began."