Caroline Macdonald was a children's author. She was from New Zealand. Her book "Elephant Rock" received the Esther Glen Award for most distinguished contribution to New Zealand literature for children and young adults in 1984. In 1989, Macdonald wrote the text and Chris Gaskin provided the illustration for "Joseph's Boat" which won the Russell Clark Award. That same year, Macdonald received the Premier's Literary Awards Alan Marshall Prize for Children's Literature Studies for "The Lake at the End of the World." She received third place awards in 1990 and 1991 in the AIM Children's Book Awards for "The Lake at the End of the World" and "Speaking to Miranda." Macdonald died in 1997.