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Good Reads News
2009 LIANZA Children's Book
Awards Announced
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New Zealand’s oldest book prize, the Esther Glen Award, was presented at
the LIANZA Children’s Book Awards ceremony in Wellington on Monday 10 August.
The Esther Glen Award was
established in 1944 and is presented to the author whose work is considered a
distinguished contribution to fiction for children. The prize was presented to
Wellington writer Fleur Beale for her young adult novel
Juno of Taris (Random House). The judges said Beale “excels in descriptions
of life as a feisty teenage girl. Juno is a remarkable character, the reader
delights in her triumphs and commiserates in her disappointments.”
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Dunedin based author and illustrator Robyn Belton received the Russell
Clark Award for
Herbert: The Brave Sea Dog (Craig Potton Publishing). The Russell Clark
Award was established in 1975 and celebrates a distinguished contribution to
illustrated children’s books. Belton first won the Russell Clark Award in
1985 for The Duck in the Gun, written by Joy Cowley.
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For the first time the Te Kura Pounamu Award has been won by a novel.
Mihiroa by Peti Nohotima with illustrations by Misty (He Kupenga Hao
I te Reo) caught the judge’s attention for its skill in capturing a teenage
perspective. “From texting to teenage jealousy, from budding relationships to
the intensity of sporting competition, one of the most captivating features is
how the language is used to develop the characters and their interactions. The
delightful line drawings add to the story’s attraction too.” This award was
established in 1995 and celebrates works written in te reo Māori for children
and young people.
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Radio New Zealand host
Veronika Meduna and science historian Rebecca Priestly were the
recipients of the Elsie Locke Award for
Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA (Random House). The judges noted that the book had
developed out of a 2006 National Library science exhibition, and delighted in
the insights it gives to the lives of the sixty eight New Zealand scientists
profiled. “Did you know that entomologist George Hudson did his field work in a
three piece suit? Beneath his suit he wore head to toe pink woolen underwear. As
librarians we knew that this book filled a gap in our collections.” |
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Films
Based on Books - August, September, October
Released in August 09
Coraline
based on
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Coco before Chanel based on
Chanel: Her Life, Her World,
and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created
by Edmonde Charles-Roux - we don’t have this book at present.
My Sister’s Keeper based on
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Disgrace
based on
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
(film
tie-in)
Released in September 09
The Secret of
Moonacre based on
The Little White Horse by
Elizabeth Goudge
Released in October 09
Mao’s Last
Dancer based on
Mao’s Last Dancer by
Li Cunxin
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously based on
Julie
and
Julia : 365
days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage,
her job, and her sanity to master the art of living by Julie Powell.
The new edition of the title will have the same title as the film. The other two
books that have a relationship to this film are
Mastering the Art of French
Cooking / Julia Child and My life in France / Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme –
we don’t have these at the moment. |
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Poetry Spot
Flaxmere
Library invites you to poetry musings with a cuppa at the monthly Poetry Spot meetings to be held on the fourth
Wednesday of each month 10.30 - 11.30 am.
More >> |
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Winners Announced Montana NZ Book Awards
Emily Perkins
won the 2009 Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry with
Novel About My Wife.
Jill
Trevelyan won the 2009 Montana Medal for Non-Fiction for a biography about
Hastings born artist Rita Angus:
Rita Angus: An Artist's Life.
Kate De Goldi’s
The 10pm Question
won the Readers' Choice Award.
Already the Book of the Year at this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards, this
age-defying book’s Montana shortlisting makes history as the first to be
simultaneously selected for both the children’s and adult’s national awards.
More
on the winners and
lists of
finalists:
http://www.booksellers.co.nz/mba_finalists.htm |
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De
Goldi Wins Children’s Book of the Year
Kate De Goldi has won the country’s highest accolade in
children’s and young adult writing; the 2009 New Zealand Post
Book of the Year Award for her novel,
The 10pm
Question.
Other winners were:
2009 Best First Book:
Violence 101 by Denis Wright
2009 Junior Fiction:
Old Drumble by Jack Lasenby
2009 Picture Book:
Roadworks by Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock (illustrator)
2009 Non-fiction:
Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & Curious by Gregory
O'Brien
See
New Zealand Post Book Awards >> |
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Successful
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
Organisers were "absolutely delighted" with the
attendance, with some events being sold out. "We couldn't have wished for
a better turn-out or more wonderful writers."
A
list of authors is available on their website, with a profile and links to
interviews, book reviews and more.
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Adult book awards to be sponsored by
New Zealand Post in 2010
New Zealand Post is to become
the naming rights sponsor of the New Zealand Book Awards from 2010. This
follows the decision by Pernod Ricard New Zealand to make the 2009 Montana New
Zealand Book Awards its last year of sponsorship. More at
http://www.booksellers.co.nz/bk_main.htm |
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Books on Film
More and
more books are being made into films. Recent releases:
The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink - We hold this as a
book and
talking book (cassettes)
Angels &
Demons by Dan Brown - We hold
Angels & Demons single volume
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Angels and demons : The Da Vinci Code - read both! |
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Publishing your work
PublishMe:
http://www.publishme.co.nz - Would you like to publish but are not sure how
to go about it? PublishMe supports you through the process of
self-publishing your work, from one copy to many, and has an on-line shop if you
wish to market your book too. |
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