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Carterton Community Centre
A multi-use, flexible facility for everyone in the heart of Carterton. Professionally managed and available for all to use. For more details please click here
NZ Book Month
This month is New Zealand Book Month.
NZ Book Month
Check out the special events being held as part of the celebrations. Also featured on this site are some fascinating blogs with NZ personalities such as poets James Brown and Chris Price, novelist Louise Wareham Leonard and sports writer Spiro Zavos.
NZ Book Council
The New Zealand Book Council is a not-for-profit organisation that presents a wide range of programmes promoting a love of books and reading, including the NZ Book Month.
What Do I Read Next?
This excellent database helps you identify new books to read. Covers adult and young adult as well as children's fiction and nonfiction. Searching is by author, title, subject, genre, character, and topic. What Do I Read Next? also contains an extensive selection of award winning books, over 50,000 plot summaries and promotions for upcoming titles. To access this will require your borrower number.
NZ Society of Authors
The major supporter of the professional interest of New Zealand writers, NZSA is open to writers of every genre – published or not.
Book-club
The site for book-clubbers and booklovers, it provides reviews of the latest fiction releases and provides a link for bookclubs to communicate with each other.
Literature Resource Center
This database contains critical essays and biographical information on over 100,000 authors, both historical and contemporary. A superb and comprehensive resource for students. It also includes information on major New Zealand authors. To access this will require your borrower number
Discussions about books
Part of the GrownUps 50+ community is this online forum for people to discuss books.
NZ Electronic Poetry Centre
A project based at the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region.
‘The Six Pack’ is a book available from the Wairarapa Library Service which includes NZ short stories and poetry.
Montana NZ Book Awards
The Montana New Zealand Book Awards are New Zealand's premier awards for contemporary writing. These awards recognise excellence in, and encourage the reading of, the best books published annually in New Zealand.
Google books
Did you know you could search the full text of books and discover new ones, using one of NZ’s most popular search engines?
Directory of NZ libraries
Use this site to find contact details and other information about NZ libraries.
Reading recovery in NZ
The aim of reading recovery is to prevent literacy difficulties at an early age before they begin to affect the child’s learning.
Reading Rockets
This site helps adults with reading comprehension and language arts teaching strategies for kids.
TeamUp
Team Up with your kids, their teachers and your whanau to encourage and support your kids with learning about reading and writing.
Books in Homes
Find out all about Books in Homes and the people and organizations involved.
Authors
Tanya Batt
Tanya Batt is both a successful story-teller and writer.
Joy Cowley
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealands most prolific and successful writers. To find out more information on Joy, her work and writing advice browse around this site.
Lynley Dodd
Lynley Dodd is most well-known for her Hairy Maclary books, her books have sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
Tessa Duder
Tessa Duder’s official website has information about her life, her writing and other news.
Brian Falkner
Brian Faulkners website allows you to edit his pages – change the background, his picture and even put yourself on the cover of his book ‘Henry and the Flea’.
Patricia Grace
A key figure in the emergence of Maori fiction in English, Patricia Grace is distinguished also for the variety of Maori people and ways of life it portrays and for its resourceful versatility of style and narrative and descriptive technique.
Fiona Kidman
Her official website contains information you won’t find anywhere else. Find out about her writing, where she gets her inspiration and where she will be appearing next.
Margaret Mahy
A brief biography by the Christchurch City Libraries, where Margaret Mahy was once children’s librarian. You can also check out the Maddigan's Quest page, a very interactive and fun page to explore.
Jenny Pattrick
Songs by Laughton and Jenny Pattrick, order your book and CD by Jenny Pattrick from here.
C.K. Stead
Christian Kerlson Stead writes poetry, short stories and novels, find out more from the online Literary Encyclopedia.
Writing competitions
Sunday Star TImes Short Story competition
Takahe Magazine short story competition
Armageddon and Auckland City Libraries short story competition
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A library for Carterton was a priority for early settlers and the one established in 1874 …more |
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In October 1871, in a letter to the Mercury, the Hon. G.M. Waterhouse of Huangurua Station …more |
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The Featherston Library started life as the ‘Featherston Literary Institute’ in April, 1896. It was officially opened by Mr Alfred Matthews who had gifted the land and funds … more |
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