Tim Tipene

'Uncomplicated and wholesome with a 100% New Zealand flavour which is fabulous to have...They're going to be real classics, and it's just so exciting for NZ children to have these characters.' 

- Joanna Ludbrook, Nine To Noon, RNZ

'They're just what kiwi kids have been looking for!'
- Adele Broadbent, whatbooknext.com

Join Pipi and Pou in their new adventure series as they transform into a mighty eagle and a fierce taniwha in order to overcome dangers and save lives.

Pipi and Pou are looking forward to a weekend of screen time but Nana has other ideas. The earth is shaking down south and Nana wants to find out why. Can Pipi and Pou stop the raging mountain carving a destructive path through the forest? And what if success means sharing their secret powers with strangers?

OneTree House 2022.

Pipi and Pou want to spend the day reading but Nana says they have to go up north - someone needs their help. Yet when they get there, instead of being greeted as heroes something attacks them! With danger coming from every direction, how can they work together so they can get out alive?

OneTree House 2022

'The most powerful book I have read for some time.'
- Bob's Book Blog.

'Now he, (Tim), has written a memoir, White Moko, subtitled Stories from my Life, which gives some of the personal background to common themes running through his work: dealing with violence and abuse, and fighting to achieve goals, such as gaining self-respect and a sense of purpose in life. All of this is a remarkable achievement. It becomes amazing when measured against his early life, described in White Moko. The very fact that Tim Tipene is alive today is amazing. Every event in his young life seemed to destine him for drugs, despair and suicide.' 

                                      - Trevor Agnew, Magpies Magazine NZ.

One Tree House, 2020

'My picture book of the year,' - Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff. 

No 1 on the top 10 books for kids at the Auckland Libraries, Dec/2020.

Listed as one of the 50 Best Kids’ Books by the NZ Listener, 2020.

'Everything looks so small from up here,’ said Rona.
‘I know,’ Whaea beamed. ‘Even the reasons we felt angry seem so little.’
The beloved myth of Rona and the Moon comes to 21st-century Aotearoa in English and Māori in Tim Tipene’s sensitive telling, strikingly illustrated by Tai Tokerau artist Theresa Reihana.
Rona Moon gets angry with everyone — her brother, her Nana and Papa — and then one night she calls the moon stupid! Taken to meet her ancestor Whaea Rona on the moon, she learns a lesson in how to control her temper.

Oratia Books, 2020

'Tipene's stories of how he found jewels of wisdom and love in a world that had no place for him are heart breaking. Adults will need tissues. This is a book that every teacher should read too. While we all hope we never have to teach a child with an upbringing like the one Tipene had, we also all hope we will be remembered as a Mrs Battleship too.

Mrs Battleship is a collection for junior readers: vignettes from Tim's primary school years - which do not feature in White Moko.

One Tree House, 2019