What Knot You Got? Mophead’s Guide to Life by Selina Tusitala Marsh

With her trademark visual wit, Mophead unties the knots that keep usall up at night.

‘What do you do if nothing is right, at home, at school,anywhere?’
‘What if people don’t like me?’
‘What if your own ideas stink?’
‘How do I hug my dad?’

When Mophead wakes up with a knotty problem – work, kids, life, thelot – she remembers the young people who write to her asking some oflife’s toughest questions. Can she help them out? And can she helpherself too?

In What Knot You Got? Mophead takes on 11 of life’s biggest questions. Indrawings and words that will make you laugh and cry, Mophead gives us all somemoppy madness that’ll helps us think and draw and write our way out of thedarkness.

It’s a self-help book, a writing book, a workbook and a play book.It’s a book for readers from eight to eighty. It’s a book for anyone in adark place – no matter what knot you’ve got.

About the Author

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent.She was the frst Pacifc Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from TheUniversity of Auckland and is now a Professor of English specialising in Pasifkaliterature. Her frst collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSAJessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. Marsh representedTuvalu at the London Olympics Poetry Parnassus event in 2012; her work has beentranslated into Ukrainian and Spanish and has appeared in numerous forms live inschools, museums, parks, billboards, print and online literary journals. AsCommonwealth Poet (2016), she composed and performed for the Queen atWestminster Abbey. She became New Zealand’s Poet Laureate in 2017. Her debutchildren’s book and memoir, Mophead: How Your
Diference Makes a Diference, was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year atthe 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and she followedit with the bestselling Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem.

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