Joanna WaneSenior Feature Writer Lifestyle Premium·Canvas·21 Aug, 2026 07:00 PM4 mins to readKāpiti Coast illustrator-author duo Josh Morgan and Sacha Cotter.When writer Sacha Cotter accepted the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at Wellington’s Pipitea Marae on Wednesday night, alongside her illustrator partner Josh Morgan, she was thinking about their 7-year-old son, Finn.
Described by the judges as “storytelling at its finest”, the couple’s picture book, A Guide to
(Huia Publishers), explores the challenges of expressing difficult emotions, using rocks as a metaphor for the weight of what goes unspoken.
