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New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards
Announcing the finalists in the 2013 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards
Finalist author Tina Matthews reads A Great Cake
Finalist Tina Matthews would ace this test because she worked on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth
Here’s the finalists on Twitter – let me know if there’s others
Our Children’s Choice Award voting will open ASAP – we’re just experiencing technical issues (this is still the case at 3pm) [no link]
If you would like resources to share the awards news with your people you’ll find those here
New books
Walker Books April highlights
BWB Texts from Maurice Gee, Rebecca Macfie, & Kathleen Jones go live today
Opportunities
Applications are now open for the 2013 National Flash Fiction Day Competition
From around the internet
‘The Little Prince’ Turns 70
Sarah Laing: The comic books and a comic!
Literary News and Bookish Potpourri — April 3, 2013
Thoughts on Twitter about bookshops
“I can’t be the only person who walks past the Philosophy table at Unity and feels the urge to upend it with a barbaric yawp.”
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