Thursday 21 June 2012

One Thousand and One Nits


Don Donovan has a great blog with lots of "Great Works Re-Visited".  These are book titles he has changed slightly to give a very different meaning! 

http://don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz/


Tuesday 22 May 2012

Beautiful New Art Books

Come and be inspired by some beautiful new books available in the library.














Thursday 10 May 2012

Poem - Wild Daisies by Bub Bridger

Wild Daisies

If you love me
Bring me flowers
Wild daisies
Clutched in your fist
Like a torch
No orchids or roses
Or carnations
No florists bow
Just daisies
Steal them
Risk your life for them
Up the sharp hills
In the teeth of the wind
If you love me
Bring me daisies
Wild daisies
That I will cram
In a bright vase
And marvel at

Bub Bridger
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington

RIP Maurice Sendak



American writer Maurice Sendak died this week aged 83.   He is the author and illustrator of one of the most famous picture books ever, Where the WIld Things Are.  He also wrote In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There.

Friday 27 April 2012

The Forrests - Emily Perkins


 
Emily Perkin's new book "The Forrests" is due to be released in New Zealand on April 30.
Even though it hasn't been released, some people in the UK believe it may win the the 2012 Man Booker prize!  Only one other Kiwi, Keri Hulme has acheieved this.
Watch this space....

New Books