Elwyn’s Dream: Saving the Takahe By Ali Foster, 2008 – 32 pages
‘Ali Foster, winner of the Mitre 10 Children’s Short Story writing competition based ‘Elwyn’s Dream’ on a true story. This charming, gently humorous story tells of the imaginative and persistent Elwyn Welch of Mount Bruce near Masterton who used his bantams to raise Takahe chicks in the 1950s.’