Fabulous evening concert tonight, fundraising for earthquake strengthening at St Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Kirikiriroa. WOW, wow, wow! Looking forward to their market day tomorrow. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The artwork for my poem is divine - love it when my copies turn up in the mail. Bit proud this poem was commended for the 2025 Caterpillar Prize #childrenspoetry #poem
Books about Aotearoa New Zealand
The NZ Series
A non-fiction resource for general readers and schools, introducing complex subjects in concise terms.
#nzhistory #nzgeography #oratiabooks #thenzseries @philippaw.bsky.social @christchurchlib.bsky.social @thesaplingnz.bsky.social @nzsauthorswgtn.bsky.social @nzsa.bsky.social
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Swapna Haddow holding a copy of The Terrible Trio: The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out. She’s a bit chuffed about that.
Starred review of The Terrible Trio: The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out from ALA’s Booklist ⭐️
The Terrible Trio: The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out is OUT NOW! And we’ve started with a starred review in the Booklist ⭐️
#pukapuka
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Our daughter takes us there, every time we go down! 😋
I miss Scopa hot chocolates! 😋
Love @beckamoor.bsky.social’s illustrations! The fourth Reggie Rabbit book is out now 🐰🔍
Just finished reading my first book of the year.
‘Northbound’ tells the story of @naomiarnold.bsky.social’s epic four-season trek on the Te Araroa trail. SO good, that I’m now listening to the audiobook, read by the author herself! 🥳
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shel silverstein was a prophet
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‘the inexpressible nothing’ ✨
‘The way I found
Of opening a poem I took
From the way he walked into a field.’ 🌾
Marlon Williams is SO great! 💗
‘So much light in what we call the dark’ ⚡️
A new grant! Te Waka Taki Kōrero – Māori Literature Trust invites submissions from mid-career Māori writers seeking to undertake development opportunities between February – May 2026. There are two grants available to the value of $6,000 each. Deadline 30 Jan 2026.
I visited the Penguin Books Australia studio recently and made a little video about how to draw Beans!
Hope you like it :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALr...
‘like otters wrapped in kelp’ 🦦
‘poems
skinned free of poets’ ⚡️
‘In a field
I am the absence
of field.’ 🦠
‘Time and instants glitter in the running stream’ ✨
‘and she’s still not coming home.’ 😮💨
A long journey for this book begun in the MA16 workshop and just published by OUP: 'the lively and frequently jaw-dropping story of Alan and Joan MacLeod’s 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Skye in Scotland with their six children, aged five to fifteen.'
www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/interview...
‘But spooning
is even better.’ ☝🏽
The judges for the 2026 NZCYA Book Awards have been announced! 🥳
www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...
Te Reo Māori e-books
oratia.co.nz/product/te-r...
#reomāori #oratiabooks
@etangata.bsky.social
@christchurchlib.bsky.social
@lianza.bsky.social
@nationallibrarynz.bsky.social
#tereomāori #māori #languagebooks #Polynesianlanguages #ebooks #learntereo #honablack
Author selfie while holding up an article in a magazine featuring an expressive photo, bookshelves in the background
Wow, the photo they selected was a *choice* 💀
Palmy Proud is described as “a brag book” highlighting “the best of Palmerston North” with new issues of the magazine coming out twice a year and being distributed around town and other major centres. [1/5]
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎🌈✒️
‘I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.’ ⚓️
‘bed of eyes and leaky pens’ 🖊️
