DescriptionReviewsAdele, WhatBookNext ~ I always love stories where the misunderstood character is viewed or finally seen by someone new in town, on the team, or in the classroom – whether they are animal or human.Misconceptions of people (or animals) are sometimes hard to shift, especially from the inside. Roo and Vladimir takes this common problem in every day lives and heals it with a furry friendship.About the AuthorMinky Stapleton is a multi-faceted illustrator with a range of styles, all with a heavy dash of dark humour. She spent her formative years as an award-winning Art Director and later Creative Director in Johannesburg, working in some of South Africa’s best advertising agencies. After many years of corporate life, she threw it all in to follow her first love, illustration. She now resides in Auckland, where she balances a number of local and international illustration projects with running classes for kids on how to design scary monsters. Minky has illustrated a number of books for Scholastic New Zealand including Things in the Sea are Touching Me! Roo and Vladimir (an unlikely friendship) is the first book Minky has both written and illustrated.
