NZ Illustrators and Writers
New Zealand Bedtime Treasury
Puffin Books 2014
$45.00hb 234pp
ISBN 978 0 1433 0837 9
Themes: Classic New Zealand stories and poems
Anyone who has been around children’s books for a while
will, on opening this handsome treasury see at once so many of their favourite
stories and poems and all with their original illustrations - all just waiting to be shared with children. It’s more than a special book for a
grandmotherly Christmas present. (But lucky child who does get to own their own
copy!) It’s a book for any school
whose budget will allow it because these are what could be described as
‘backbone’ stories and poems from writers and illustrators like Margaret Mahy/
Lynley Dodd/ Pamela Allen/ Katherine Mansfield/ Patricia Grace/ Joy Cowley/
Ruth Dallas/ Gwenda Turner/ Peter Bland/ James K/ Baxter…this is a rich mixture
and there are three generous pages of information about the ‘contributors’.
Crèche up/
Age 2 up
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