New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults - Festival and Celebrations
New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults - Festival and Celebrations is a ten day festival celebrating the importance of children's books, reading and writing with hundreds of events nationwide.
It takes place annually in May and includes a tour by New Zealand children's writers and illustrators, organised by the New Zealand Book Council. The festival culminates with the announcement of the winners of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults and is sponsored by New Zealand Post and supported by Creative New Zealand. It is managed and administered by Booksellers New Zealand.
Events and activities are organised by a national network of volunteer co-ordinators who do a magnificent job in staging events that turn kids on to books and celebrate New Zealand writing.
Award celebrations focus attention on finalist books and their authors and promote the importance and enjoyment of books and reading. This festival of activities is for children, parents, teachers, librarians, community groups and anyone excited by the value and pleasure of children’s books and reading.
By recognising the outstanding range and quality of books by New Zealand writers and illustrators, published in the preceding year, these celebrations provide inspiration for a new generation of writers and illustrators.
For more information visit: www.nzpostbookawards.co.nz
The touring writers for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are:
Melanie Drewery - Northland, Counties/Manukau
Dave Gunson - Auckland North, Auckland West
Brigid Lowry - Auckland Central
David Larsen - Tauranga
Anna Mackenzie - Rotorua, Hawkes Bay
Phyllis Johnston - Rotorua, Waikato
Jenny Cooper - Gisborne
Fleur Beale - Wairarapa, Southland
Alexa Johnston - Taranaki
Stanley Palmer - Wanganui
Craig Harrison - Palmerston North
Feana Tu'akoi - Palmerston North
Ali Teo - Kapiti
John O'Reilly - Kapiti
Tina Matthews - Wellington, Porirua
Ruth Paul - Hutt Valley-Upper, Hutt Valley-Lower
Penelope Todd - West Coast
Andrew Crowe - Marlborough, Nelson
Bill Nagelkerke - Canterbury
Sandra Carrod - Otago
National Coordinator (festival)
Michelle MacLean, P O Box 8405, Symonds St, Auckland 1150, Tel: 0274 896 124 , Email: michelle.maclean@xtra.co.nz
Touring Writers
Sarah Hughes and Justine Clifton, Education section, New Zealand Book Council, Level 7 Navigate House, 69 Boulcott St, Wellington. Ph: 04 499 1569, Fax: 04 499 1424, Email: education@bookcouncil.org.nz
Media/ Public Relations
Penny Hartill, 47 Stanley Point Road, Devonport, Auckland.
Cell: 021 721 424, Email: phartill@xtra.co.nz
