The aim is to celebrate and highlight the power of the book - to be an active part of our everyday lives – shaping who we are and what we can be as individuals and as a nation.
From the North Island to the South Island, from neighbour, school bus to sporting field, workplace to playground, NZBM encourages people of all ages to engage with books - to share the book or books that changed their lives, recommend books, and to reach out to new readers to read.
“Children growing up in homes with books get 3 more years schooling than children with bookless homes, independent of their parents’ education, occupation and class” - Evans, M.D.R., Kelley, J., Sikora, .J and Treiman, D. (2010). Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations, ScienceDirect.
A fantastic programme of over 200 events scaling across the country and across the month of March have been organised by our volunteer activists, all of whom are passionate librarians, booksellers, readers and writers. New Zealand authors and visiting international authors will be giving talks, literary readings to poetry, lectures to exhibitions, book launches to festivals, story-telling for kids to rugby in literature, haunted castles to blind cooking, and blogging to quizzes there is an event for all age groups and genres.
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