Published work

Tanya’s published works include retellings of traditional tales, original picture book stories, non fiction in the area of arts education and she has contributed short stories to anthology collections for children. Her work has been illustrated by a range of artists including Nicoletta Ceccoli (Italy), Natalia Vasquez (Peru), Helen Bacon (New Zealand) and Rachel Griffin (UK).

Her audio recordings are features in Radio New Zealand Storytime, have been included in Air New Zealand inflight selections and are regular favourites on children’s radio programmes.

Audio Recordings

Faery Favourites (New Frontier 1999)
Originally a cassette, now available as digital download

Mermaid Tales (New Frontier 2000)
Originally cassette tape, now available as digital download

The Fabrics of Fairytale (Barefoot 2000)
Audiobook available as digital download

A Child’s Book of Faeries (Barefoot 2002)
Out of Print, available as audiobook on audible.com

Dance Upon a Time (Playcentre Publications 2004)
Music album with pdf educational resource, available as digital download

The Fairytale Tree (Imagined Worlds 2005)
Available as CD and digital download

The Story Sack (Playcentre 2006)
Available as digital download only.

Imagined Worlds (Playcentre 2007)
Available as digital download only.

Box of Foxes (Imagined Worlds 2008)
Available as CD and digital download

Elemental (Imagined Worlds 2010, 2019)
Available as CD and digital download

The Time of Your Life (Imagined Worlds 2010) * Available as digital download only.

Scary Stories (Imagined Worlds 2014)
Available as CD and digital download

Universe of Story (Imagined Worlds 2017)
Available as CD and digital download

Chickira Queen of the Chickens
(Imagined Worlds 2018)
Available as CD and digital download

Dance upon Our Earth (Imagined Worlds 2019)
Available as CD and digital download

Toby or Not to be – Stories of Death and dying (Imagined Worlds 2020)
Available as CD and digital download

Books Fiction

The Fabrics of Fairytale (Barefoot Books 2000)
Out of print, ISBN 1 – 84148 -060 -6

The Terrible Queue (Scholastic 2001)
Out of print, available on kindle
ISBN 1-86943-451-x

A Child’s Book of Faeries (Barefoot 2002)
Only in paperback, ISBN 1-84148-954-9

The Faery’s Gift (Barefoot 2003)
Only in paperback, ISBN 1-84148-998-0

The Princess and the White Bear King
(Barefoot 2004)
Paperback only, ISBN 1-84148-242-0

My Dad’s a Dragon Catcher (Cleanslate Press 2012) Hardcover and paperback, ISBN 9781927185612

Catching Fish (Cleanslate Press 2012)
Hardcover and paperback, ISBN 9781927185605

The Time of Your Life (One Tree House 2019)
Hardcover only

Non Fiction

Imagined Worlds (Playcentre Publications 2001) Digital download only, ISBN 0-908609-40-x

Dance Upon A Time (Playcentre Publications 2004) Digital download only, ISBN 0-908609-53-x

The Story Sack (Playcentre Publications 2006) Digital download only, ISBN 0-908609-56-6  

Anthologies & other publications

Storylines – The Anthology (Scholastic 2003)
NFS, ISBN 1-86943-568-0

Tell me a Story (Pearson Education Australia )
NFS, ISBN 0-7339-3259-2

Out of the Deep and other stories (Reed 2007)
NFS, ISBN 978 1 86978 015 9

"Like those tales from long ago, Tanya Batt’s wonderful collection, ‘The Time of Your Life’ CD, invites us to listen again and again."

Gavin Bishop - NZ author/illustrator