Ronda Armitage

Ronda Armitage is a children's writer, teacher and counsellor. She lives in England.

Biography
Ronda Armitage was born in Kaikōura, New Zealand, on 11 March 1943.

She worked as a teacher and is a trained counsellor, but is best known for her many children's books, including the Lighthouse Keeper series, inspired by the Beachy Head lighthouse.

She moved to England in 1974 with her husband David Armitage and two children and now lives in East Sussex. David Armitage has illustrated many of her books.

Awards and prizes
Ronda Armitage's first book (and the first in the Lighthouse Keeper series), The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, won the 1978 Esther Glen Award. This title was also named in the booklist for Fifty Favourite Books From The Last Fifty Years by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups.

In 2013, she won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award for A Very Strange Creature.