Joy Cowley is an established fiction writer who has also written many successful books for children.
Joy has two writing desks. With her husband she now lives in Wellington, New Zealand, in an apartment near the railway station; but they still have a cottage in the Marlborough Sounds where they lived for many years.
She sees herself as wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. This is who she is; writing is what she does, and she has been writing for as long as she can remember. Her writing for children began with an after-school job in 1953 when she was 16, editing the children's page of The Manawatu Daily Times.
Joy Cowley
These are two versions of this lively show from Joy Cowley stories. The junior version (for 5-8 year olds) has a scary story about a horrible thing with hairy feet, a sad story about the death of a bantam hen, a silly story about a pet tiger and a serious story about an armadillo.
Cast: 4
Joy Cowley
Written especially for the Town and Country Players, who performed it over 200 times, this show works best for children from 4-9 years.
Cast: 4
Joy Cowley
Doctor Foster and Major Brassblow are the owners of a tank factory and a missile factory. As a result of their mutual suspicion they find themselves working on each other's assembly lines.
Cast: 4
Joy Cowley
Felicity Frogwash, the owner of Frogwash Farm, is besieged by two suitors whose motives aren't as pure as they would like them to seem.
Cast: 6
Joy Cowley
Muddly and Puddly farewell their daughter, Agapanthus, as she sets off on a tour of space. There she meets exes, dingaloos, and robots all living on planets that have their own special rules or no rules at all.
Cast: 3