Popular Kiwi novelist
Emily Perkins had her hands full when she took on the reins of The Good Word Jnr, a
downsized spin-off from her usual TV gig, presenting TVNZ 7’s long-running
book show The Good
Word.
Her hands were full in only a good way as she adjusted to
leading a review panel of book-mad 12 and 13-year-olds and having a
14-year-old reporter loose in the field.The Good Word Jnr will run for four weeks through NZ Book Month in March, putting books into kid and family-friendly territory. The ‘junior’ version of The Good Word falls into the shape of the grown-up version of the show. Perkins opens the show, with the regular panel of Sophie Parke, Murdoch Keene and Connie Gregory, well-read kids from Ponsonby Intermediate. Each week they review a lesser-known Kiwi kids classic – like Elsie Locke’s venerable, The Runaway Settlers, and Maurice Gee’s The Halfmen of O – and then there’s a teen-friendly guest talking with Perkins about a favourite book. The guests include Midnight Youth singer Jeremy Redmore, and TVNZ U presenter and comedian Rose Matafeo.
Out in the field, on
assignment to look into the potentially boring world of New Zealand books is
14-year-old Frank Talbot, who casts a suspicious eye on the idea that
libraries might be fun and history anything else but a big scary book.
Photo: Emily
Perkins and The Good Word Jnr team.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Good Word Jnr Saturday 3 March, 7.05pm
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