Get inspired and read a New Zealand Book this March. There are so many to choose from at your library.
Find New Zealand books at your library by looking for the bright yellow NZ sticker on the spine.
Recent, award-winning New Zealand Books can be found on the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010, Nga Kupu Ora Awards 2010 and New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2011 pages.
Lists of popular New Zealand Books as voted by New Zealanders have been posted on the NZ Book Month website.
Learn to write for kids at this free workshop for adults run by children's author Kathy White at the Turangi Library on Saturday 5th March from 9am. More information.
Learn to write for kids at this free workshop for adults, children and teens run by children's author Kathy White at the Taupo Library on Saturday 12th March from 9am. More information.
Get lost in the poetic and illustrative magic of Margaret Mahy & David Elliot. Visit the exhibition, attend David Elliot's workshop, meet David Elliot, come along to the Family Day and enter competitions from February 12th to April 4th. For more information on specific events, visit our Making of the Word Witch page.
Find out about other NZ Book Month events in your region and around New Zealand at the NZ Book Month website.
The finalists have been announced. Check them out, vote for your favourite and enter the story writing competition on our NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2011 page.
Check out New Zealand Books and Win!
Go in the draw to win a Prize Pack of New Zealand books every time you check out a New Zealand Book at the Taupo Library during the month of March.
People's Choice
Vote and win in our People's Choice competition running through March. Watch out for details coming soon.
Get a $5 book voucher. Four Million of them are being given away. Find out where you can get yours.
This March, it is hoped to put books into more homes across the country than ever before, by distributing four million $5 book vouchers as part of our Books Change Lives campaign.
Visit the New Zealand Book Month Website for more information about New Zealand Books and the events, activities, competitions and giveaways that are happening this month.
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