Jill Eggleton
Jill Eggleton, of Parnell, received the Insignia of a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to education and literacy. Mrs Eggleton is a children's author, whose career spanning 40 years has included children's literacy resources and teacher training resources for literacy. She has published over 700 children's books, including poetry, which has sold successfully nationally and internationally. She was instrumental in the implementation of the Linking the Language Strands programme. She lectured in education at the Auckland University of Technology and has run literacy education programmes for Māori teachers. Mrs Eggleton has taught at Native American reservations in the United States of America, and has been a keynote speaker at many international reading conferences.