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- NZ Book Month 2012 is on its way!
- Tender process opens for booksellers - Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
- Welcome Hera Bird
- Costa Book Award winner announced
New Zealand Post Book Awards
New Zealand Post Childrens Book Awards
All about the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
Last Year’s Supreme Book Award Winner is This Year’s Top Judge
Last year Chris Bourke took home the country’s top literary honour – the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award – for his work Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. This year he heads up the judging panel for the same award.
A respected writer, reviewer, music historian and radio producer, Chris is well known as a former long-time producer for Radio New Zealand National’s Saturday Morning programme and as a staff writer and arts and books editor for print publications including The Listener.
Order your Kiwi Kid’s Good Book Guide/Resource booklets today!
It’s time to prepare for the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 2012... Point Of Sale (POS) packs are being distributed free of charge to every school, library and Bookseller NZ members this year. Each pack will contain one copy of the Kiwi Kids’ Good Book Guide magazine/Resource Booklet.
ORDER DEADLINE: 5pm WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY
Bookshop of the Month
Almo’s Books taps into Wairarapa lifestyle
Almo’s Books in Carterton is not quite one year old, opening last December. It is set up with “a homely New York loft” ambiance – industrial look shelves, modern couch, informality – and a stock selection that is strong in non-fiction and books for children.
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Hardie Grant Egmont announces new 'chirpy bird' imprint
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) adds ‘chirpy’ titles to its focused publishing list to consolidate their reputation for being ‘the early bird that catches the worm’ within the children’s market.
Book now for PANZ International Conference 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference 2012 will be held at the Mercure Hotel, 8 Customs Street, Auckland on March 1st and 2nd and they are now taking registrations at conference@publishers.org.nz using the form attached below.