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Children's literature is not a genre10 comments

shawjonathan wrote 1 month ago: Guus Kuijer, The Book of Everything (2004; Translation by John Nieuwenhuizen, Allen & Unwin 2006 … more →

Tags: Books, Belvoir Street, children's literature, david greenberg, Guus Kuijer, John Nieuwenhuizen, Novel, picture book, Richard Tulloch

Nominations for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award2 comments

bookwitch wrote 2 months ago: The ALMA people have a long longlist of 168 nominations for next year’s award, and I won … more →

Tags: Authors, Awards, Books, Jacqueline Wilson, michael morpurgo, Reading, Aidan Chambers, alma, Axel Scheffler

Tuesday's answers

homepaddock wrote 3 months ago: Monday’s Questions were: 1. Who wrote Among the Cinders? 2. Who said: We are biologically engi … more →

Tags: Diversions, Paul Corrigan, Maurice Shadbolt, Paul Tremewan, Isaac Newton, Daily Mews, cat flap, Great Fire of London, Thomas Farriner

Down the back of the sofa2 comments

homepaddock wrote 3 months ago: Down the Back of the Chair is one of Margaret Mahy’s picture book gems. In it Dad finds all so … more →

Tags: Domestic, Donw the Back of the Chair

The Dictionary Bird

miztres wrote 4 months ago: A little nonsense for the end of the week.   Through my house in sunny weather Flies the Dictionary … more →

Tags: language, Poetry

Free?

bookwitch wrote 6 months ago: The older of us grew up with the idea of the United Nations as something good and natural. The Unive … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Education, languages, Jacqueline Wilson, Crime, michael morpurgo, Poetry, History

Pictures without Stories4 comments

mashadutoit wrote 8 months ago: Do you remember the time before you could read, paging through books and looking at the pictures?  A … more →

Tags: Art, Illustration, Books, madalina iordache-levey, Cornelia Funke, clarissa leahy, james c christiansen

From Bintegrity to Maristocracy

Vivian McPhail wrote 8 months ago: Integrity is complete honesty in thought, word, and deed. Margaret Mahy claims to have written my sp … more →

Tags: Knights Templar, Integrity

Author Of the Week March 16 -22

tararualibrary wrote 9 months ago: Margaret Mahy Margaret Mahy is a former Children’s Librarian at Christchurch City Libraries an … more →

Tags: Author of the Week

And the nominees are ...3 comments

mj wrote 1 year ago: Two New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – Marg … more →

Tags: Books, Awards, Children, Literary Prizes, New Zealand, Authors, Publishing, Writers, Joy Cowley

Would You Trust This Survey?2 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 year ago: I was wondering how some of the people even made it to the list of most trusted New Zealanders when … more →

Tags: Smiles, Farmers, police, Colin Meads, readers digest, trusted, occupations, Journalist, Taxi Driver

Margaret Mahy reads from Prince Caspian1 comment

Donna wrote 1 year ago: Margaret Mahy is reading from Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis at Borders, Sunday 25 May, 1pm at Borders … more →

Tags: New Zealand, Authors, Writers, Prince Caspian


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