Her first book was a small reader and picture book for young children and she started to write for teenagers in 1993. Beale's first stories were written for the children's radio programme Grandpa's Place. Since 1985 she has taught at Melville High School in Hamilton, Waikato and in Wellington. Beale grew up in the town before attending Victoria University, Wellington and Christchurch Teachers' Training College, where she met her husband. She was born in Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand, on the farm where her father was born. Fleur Beale is the author of many award-winning books for children and young adults, best known for her novel I am not Esther which has been published worldwide.īeale was one of six children of a dairy farmer Cedric Corney and of a teacher and author Estelle Corney (née Cook).
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