With her trademark visual wit, Mophead unties the knots that keep us all 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, the lot – she remembers the young people who write to her asking some of life’s toughest questions. Can she help them out? And can she help herself too?

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

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 a dark 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 The University of Auckland and is now a Professor of English specialising in Pasifka literature. Her frst collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. Marsh represented Tuvalu at the London Olympics Poetry Parnassus event in 2012; her work has been translated into Ukrainian and Spanish and has appeared in numerous forms live in schools, museums, parks, billboards, print and online literary journals. As Commonwealth Poet (2016), she composed and performed for the Queen at Westminster Abbey. She became New Zealand’s Poet Laureate in 2017. Her debut children’s book and memoir, Mophead: How Your
Diference Makes a Diference, was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and she followed it with the bestselling Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem.