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How your Difference Makes A Difference
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A year of reading locally: Kids and young adult
Earlier this week I posted about the New Zealand fiction I'd read in 2020 and mentioned that this has led to me making more local choices as bedtime reading with my son (as well as more work by Māori authors). It also resulted in me reading several Young Adult titles. In today's post I'll run through what books for young readers by New Zealand authors we've enjoyed this year. Children's Keys … (more)
Best book covers of 2020 – My pick of New Zealand’s finest
I keep an eye out during the year for cool covers and flash-as book production. Here are my 2020 standouts. EVERYTHING TO SEE I have been low key obsessed with this book cover since I first laid eyes on it. The cover photo is by Russell Kleyn, a "South African-born, multidisciplinary photographer based in Wellington, with portraits in the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington and the… (more)
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ChristchurchTeens
Nov 10, 2020
An enchanting graphic memoir from New Zealand’s poet laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At age 10, the kids at school teased Selina for her wild, frizzy hair. She does everything to tame her hair and avoid being called ‘mophead’, until one day when Sam Hunt, a poet with wild hair and even wilder wo... Read More »
An enchanting graphic memoir from New Zealand’s poet laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At age 10, the kids at school teased Selina for her wild, frizzy hair. She does everything to tame her hair and avoid being called ‘mophead’, until one day when Sam Hunt, a poet with wild hair and even wilder wo... Read More »
A graphic novel-esque book reminding us of racism in our own backyard, and how different is not just ok, but beautiful! Written by NZ Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh, also available as an ebook.
A graphic novel-esque book reminding us of racism in our own backyard, and how different is not just ok, but beautiful! Written by NZ Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. Also available as an eBook.
ChristchurchKids
Nov 19, 2019
A picture book memoir of our New Zealand Poet Laureate on how she grows up and finds her voice.
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