Weekly people
Illustrator Vida Kelly vividly remembers the day her teenage son Arlo asked her to read the first chapter of a book he’d started writing.
They were on holiday at Makorori, near Gisborne, and the then-14-year-old had rushed back from exploring rock pools on the beach with an idea.
“I read it and thought, ‘This is really good,’” says Vida, a book designer and illustrator. She says her son’s passion for writing began at an early
