Margaret Mahy Medal Award Lecture
And
Annual General Meeting

Saturday 28 March 2009, 10.45am – 2.30pm
Heaton Normal Intermediate School,
125/133 Heaton Street, Merivale, Christchurch, NZ

Andrew Crowe
Recipient of the Margaret Mahy Medal 2009
Natural history writer and photographer Andrew Crowe is the first non-fiction writer to win the country’s top children’s literature prize, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. The award is given annually for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature.

“Andrew Crowe’s contribution to young New Zealanders’ knowledge of their country’s natural history has been unique and of long standing,” says Storylines Trust chairman, Dr Libby Limbrick. “His many books, both in design and content, are consistently attractive, informative and accessible to young and old alike.”

Emigrating from Britain in 1972, Andrew Crowe published his first field guide to native edible plants in 1981, following an experience of getting lost in the bush and deciding that through books he could show that New Zealand was for him ‘a very special place’.
He has since produced more than 40 titles about native fauna and flora.

Programme
10.15am Registration
10.45am Welcome and Annual General Meetings
11.30am Presentation of Tom Fitzgibbon Award 2009
Presentation of Gaelyn Gordon Award 2009
Presentation of Joy Cowley Award 2009
Launch: Salt River by Liz Hegarty, Tom Fitzgibbon Award, 2008
12.15pm Lunch
1.15pm Margaret Mahy Award Lecture: Andrew Crowe

Cost: $25 for members;$35 for Non-members; $10 for Children/Student with ID (lecture only)
Registration Forms available from: http://www.storylines.org.nz/ or contact: The Secretary, Storylines, PO Box 96 094, Balmoral, Auckland 1342.

Email childlitnz@storylines.org.nz

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