Ahoy knitters! We are hosting a World Wide Knit in Public event at Central Library Peterborough on Saturday 13 June 10am to 12pm. There will be tea and coffee and some biscuits to sustain you. This event will be held in conjunction with Knit world (just down the street a bit at 189 Peterborough Street…
Interview with Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon
Christopher Paolini, the author of the Inheritance Cycle, came down to Christchurch in 2012 for the Armageddon Expo. Along with hundreds of other fans, I went along to listen to Christopher talk about his books and get some copies of his books signed. I caught up with Christopher to ask him a few questions about his…
Kids’ writing heroes at the Auckland Writers Festival
Did you ever wish to meet your favourite author when you were little? Did you get a chance? What did you say or ask? When I was a keen young reader, all my favourite authors were already dead. Except one. I was lucky enough to meet her once. She was talking to the teachers in…
Te Kupu o te Wiki – The Word of the Week
Kia ora. To celebrate Te Reo Māori we are publishing kupu (words). Kīwaha (colloquialism) Kua aua atu te wā. Long time, no see. Kupu (word) taringa ear He tangata taringa kore ia! He/She has no ears! Watch video of someone pronouncing this kupu. Browse our Te Reo Māori resources. Previous Te Kupu o te reo…
This week in Christchurch history (25 to 31 May)
25 May 1861 “Christchurch Press” appears. The first editor was ex-Superintendent James FitzGerald, a bitter opponent of the proposed Lyttelton-Christchurch railway tunnel. He and supporters began the paper to air their views. 25 May 1903 Statue of Queen Victoria unveiled in Market Square, and the area is renamed Victoria Square. Queen Victoria statue, 2007. Flickr…
Pasifika newspapers now online
National Library of New Zealand have added even more great historical newspapers to their Papers Past resource, and just in time for Samoan Language Week they've made some historical Pasifika newspapers available.
WORD Christchurch Autumn Season 2015
WORD Christchurch puts on a range of literary events during the year. The WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival takes place biennially, with the next Festival scheduled for 2016. We attended the WORD Christchurch Autumn Season from 12 to 17 May 2015, blogged, and tweeted (hashtag #wordchch). Find out more on our WORD Christchurch page…
How NOT to build a bomb shelter
In 2011, author Leonie Thorpe told us her memories of building a bomb shelter in Lyttelton: I’m not sure whether nuclear weapons were on the curriculum of every New Zealand primary school in 1979, but they were at Lyttelton Main. Someone wanted to blow up the world with an H bomb, and our little township…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Captain Underpants!
Captain Underpants is one of the most popular book characters for kids and his books are hardly ever on the library shelves.His hilarious adventures have kids laughing out loud. On Sunday morning at the Auckland Writers Festival, I joined hundreds of Captain Underpants - both young and old - to listen to his creator Dav…
Xinran at the WORD Christchurch Autumn Season
It was interesting to hear Xinran speak at a WORD Christchurch event. She spoke for more than an hour and we could have listened to her for much longer. Xinran is a very good story teller. She told many stories from her 300 interviews in China. She spoke about some negative effects of the one…
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