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Stephanie Bowman is a artist/illustrator(for her own books)/writer She wrote the book, //Velvet and Elvis// a book about two eels, Velvet and Elvis. It tells a story about a long finned eel called velvet and her trip from a lake In New Zealand all the way to Tonga to have her Babies. Out of the 20- 30 million baby eels, only a few survive and they still have the 5000 km trip back to New Zealand. She taught us about the long finned eels and told us that they as endangered as New Zealands native Kiwi. Ms. Bowman is actually American but when she came to New Zealand to visit some friends she went to a lake and saw some long finned eels. Her friend didn't realize they were endangered, so when Ms. Bowman went back to the U.S.A she decided to investigate more about these eels. She found that they were endangered and she wanted to do something about it. She is now going to schools all over New Zealand and is taking a big version of velvet without the middle. All the other school's that Stephanie goes to gets to do a middle piece decorated with any sea creatures they want.

13/4/11 Today we started on our bit of velvet and looking at it now it looks really good. We went in pairs to build our own sea creature and sew it onto the material. My partner and I made a crab, it didn't turn out that great... Though a lot of people said that it looked good. Right now we are just waiting for some other people to finish sewing there creatures on. I think it's my turn to sew, I hope I'm good!