Leon Davidson is a teacher and the author of the multi-award-winning histories Scarecrow Army (Black Dog Books, 2005) and Red Haze (Black Dog Books, 2006). His latest book is Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front (Text Publishing, March 2010). He lives in Wellington.

See also: New Zealand Book Council page

Books

Leon Davidson's third novel for young readers is Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front (Text Publishing, 2010), which tells the story of the plight of the Anzacs when they joined the fighting on the Western Front in 1916. Described by the publisher as 'a story many never lived to tell, and all of us should know.

Red Haze (Black Dog Books, 2006) is about the experience of New Zealanders and Australians in the Vietnam War, and received the LIANZA  Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award at the LIANZA Children's Book Awards. The work was also shortlisted in the non-fiction category for the 2007 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, was listed as a 2007 Storylines Notable Non-Fiction Book, and was an honour book in the Eve Pownall Award category for Information Books at the Children's Book of the Year Award.