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Monday, July 03, 2017
Radio with pictures... and arts, theatre, film, comedy, books, dance, entertainment and music.
Saturday, July 01, 2017
July Events at Takapuna Library
New Zealand: Paradise
Squandered?
When: Wednesday 12 July, 6.00pm -
7.30pm
Where: Takapuna Library
Cost: Gold coin/ donation
Where: Takapuna Library
Cost: Gold coin/ donation
Author talk with John Hawkes
Fourth generation New
Zealander and retired consultant rheumatologist John Hawkes gives his views on
what New Zealanders face today, covering topics as wide ranging as healthcare,
finance, trade and industry, land and property, education and sport. Has New
Zealand squandered its potential and how can we best go forward?
Please RSVP to Helen.woodhouse@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz or call (09)890-4903
And now for some fun at
Takapuna Library in the school holidays
Movie Monday
Monday 10 July, 10.30am & 1pm
Join us for two ‘under-ground’ movies in our holiday theatre space. No bookings required – just turn up, grab a cushion, and enjoy. Both movies are rated G. See in-library for further details.
Games Club+
Monday 10 July, 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Games galore for school-age kids! Bring your own device with games installed and play with other like-minded kids; beam your game onto the big screen so others can cheer you on; play Minecraft Xbox; or challenge your friends to a fun board game.
Monday 10 July, 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Games galore for school-age kids! Bring your own device with games installed and play with other like-minded kids; beam your game onto the big screen so others can cheer you on; play Minecraft Xbox; or challenge your friends to a fun board game.
Holiday science: What lies beneath a biodome?
Tuesday 11 July, 10.30am – 12pm
Our planet is an ecosystem of energy from the sun above to the ground below. Learn a little about our environment then create a mini-biosphere to take home and watch over the holidays. For children 8yrs and up.
Tuesday 11 July, 10.30am – 12pm
Our planet is an ecosystem of energy from the sun above to the ground below. Learn a little about our environment then create a mini-biosphere to take home and watch over the holidays. For children 8yrs and up.
What lies beneath?
Wednesday 12 July, 10.30am – 11.30am
Find out about animal food chains in our fun craft workshop and create your own stackable food chain.
Wednesday 12 July, 10.30am – 11.30am
Find out about animal food chains in our fun craft workshop and create your own stackable food chain.
Rhymetime
Thursday 13 July, 9.30am – 10am
Our regular Thursday session of music and movement for Under-5’s will continue during the holidays. Children are encouraged to join in as we sing, dance and have fun.
Thursday 13 July, 9.30am – 10am
Our regular Thursday session of music and movement for Under-5’s will continue during the holidays. Children are encouraged to join in as we sing, dance and have fun.
4-Up: Getting ready for school
Friday 14 July, 11am - 12pm
Our weekly literacy programme of alphabet story-time and learning activity. Today we’ll be learning about the blend ‘TH’ and looking beneath the earth. Suitable for ages 4-6 yrs.
Friday 14 July, 11am - 12pm
Our weekly literacy programme of alphabet story-time and learning activity. Today we’ll be learning about the blend ‘TH’ and looking beneath the earth. Suitable for ages 4-6 yrs.
Movie Monday
Monday 17 July, 10.30am & 1pm
Join us for two ‘up-above’ movies in our holiday theatre space. No bookings required – just turn up, grab a cushion, and enjoy. Both movies are rated G. See in-library for further details.
Monday 17 July, 10.30am & 1pm
Join us for two ‘up-above’ movies in our holiday theatre space. No bookings required – just turn up, grab a cushion, and enjoy. Both movies are rated G. See in-library for further details.
Games Club+
Monday 17 July, 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Games galore! Bring your own device with games installed and play with other like-minded kids; beam your game onto the big screen so others can cheer you on; play Minecraft Xbox; or challenge your friends to a fun board game.
Monday 17 July, 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Games galore! Bring your own device with games installed and play with other like-minded kids; beam your game onto the big screen so others can cheer you on; play Minecraft Xbox; or challenge your friends to a fun board game.
Black Stacks: cup stacking!
Tuesday 18 July, 12pm - 1pm
Fresh from the recent world champs, come along and watch members of the 2017 NZ Black Stacks team show you how to sport stack and then have a go yourselves.
Tuesday 18 July, 12pm - 1pm
Fresh from the recent world champs, come along and watch members of the 2017 NZ Black Stacks team show you how to sport stack and then have a go yourselves.
What lies above?
Wednesday 19 July, 10.30am – 11.30am
Look to the sky, by and day and by night – what can you see? Find out, come and join us for a craft workshop and make your own ‘sky-scanner’.
Wednesday 19 July, 10.30am – 11.30am
Look to the sky, by and day and by night – what can you see? Find out, come and join us for a craft workshop and make your own ‘sky-scanner’.
Rhymetime
Thursday 20 July, 9.30am – 10am
Our regular Thursday session of music and movement for Under-5’s will continue during the holidays. Children are encouraged to join in as we sing, dance and have fun.
Thursday 20 July, 9.30am – 10am
Our regular Thursday session of music and movement for Under-5’s will continue during the holidays. Children are encouraged to join in as we sing, dance and have fun.
Little Wild Music starry story night
Thursday 20 July, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Back by popular demand - it’s story night at Takapuna Library! Claudia brings the songs and Lisa’s got the stories. Come along in your pyjamas and join us as we sing and tell about the stars and planets. Milk and cookies provided – yum!
Thursday 20 July, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Back by popular demand - it’s story night at Takapuna Library! Claudia brings the songs and Lisa’s got the stories. Come along in your pyjamas and join us as we sing and tell about the stars and planets. Milk and cookies provided – yum!
4-Up: Getting ready for school
Friday 21 July, 11am - 12pm
Our weekly literacy programme of alphabet story-time and learning activity. Today we’ll be learning about the letter K and looking at the skies. Suitable for ages 4-6 yrs.
Friday 21 July, 11am - 12pm
Our weekly literacy programme of alphabet story-time and learning activity. Today we’ll be learning about the letter K and looking at the skies. Suitable for ages 4-6 yrs.
I'd rather be a Fairy Princess - NOT YOUR AVERAGE FAIRY TALE: YOUNG WELLINGTONIAN LAUNCHES A PICTURE BOOK ON FIGHTING CANCER
Twenty-year-old Kilbirnie video-blogger and aspiring
film-maker Petra Kotrotsos always dreamed she’d publish a book one day, as long
as she could fight the cancer she was diagnosed with at the age of six.
At that age, all Petra wanted to be was a fairy princess.
The following year she sat down with a family friend and wrote the story about
how she’d had to leave princess dreams behind and turn into a warrior fairy to
fight the cancer called neuroblastoma.
She fought it successfully that time, but it returned four
more times before she turned 15. At 19 Petra attended a writing workshop
organised by cancer specialist nurse Liz Sommer and Wellington publisher Mary
McCallum of Mākaro Press. At the end of the session, Petra read out her
childhood story and when she finished everyone clapped, and then Mary asked her
if she’d ever imagined it as a picture book.
‘I couldn’t believe it,’ said Petra. ‘My creative projects –
writing, video-blogging and film-making – have given me strength when
times are tough, and I’d always planned to publish my writing, now here was the
opportunity right in front of me!’
Petra saw the book as a way of helping children with cancer
not to feel so scared or so alone, and to give medical professionals a better
understanding of what it is their young patients face.
Mary found a young artist called Christina Irini Arathimos
who had never illustrated a book before, and who – like Petra – is a Wellington
woman of Greek descent. Her artwork was exactly as Petra had described the
perfect illustrations: ethereal but strong, with a timeless quality. Mary
organised a mentor for Christina Irini in award-winning illustrator Fifi
Colston, and so work on the book began, with author and illustrator
collaborating closely.
‘Petra’s and Christina Irini’s beautiful book tells the
story of a courageous young woman,’ says the Mākaro publisher. ‘It combines
childhood dreams with medical fact and more than a touch of magic, the perfect
way to help children with cancer and their families deal with the fight ahead
of them. But we also hope it will help children without cancer to develop
empathy for friends and classmates facing a cancer diagnosis.’
I’d Rather Be a Fairy Princess launches on Sunday, 2 July,
2017, at the Greek Community Hall with 200 people expected. Local printer
Wakefields Digital printed the book and the Wellington Hospitals Foundation
paid for the first print run.
‘It’s my big fat Greek book launch,’ says Petra. Sadly
Christina Irini is overseas and can’t be there but her family will – with bells
on.
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The Roundup with PW
Four
Questions for...James Patterson James Patterson is publishing a controversial, dystopian novel about an America trapped in the clutches of a monopolistic online retailer called The Store. more»
Goddard Riverside Honors David Cully, Mary Higgins Clark
The Baker & Taylor president and author will each be honored at Goddard Riverside’s Annual Book Fair Gala on November 1, and the inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice will be awarded. more » »
This June, Seattle’s Robert Sindelar was elected president of the American Booksellers Association, the youngest in 30 years. more » »
Closing the Book
On Screening Rumors: Must passengers remove books from carry-on
bags prior to sending them through the X-ray? No, the TSA confirms.
The
Librotraficantes Head to Arizona: Latino activists are trafficking
banned books to call attention to an Arizona Supreme Court case on ethnic
studies in state schools.
Reading the
Hollywood Memoir: Carolyn Kellogg on why her guilty reading
pleasures this summer are Hollywood stories.
Pullman Returns
to His Dark Materials: Penguin Random House has revealed the
cover for Philip Pullman's 'The Book of Dust,' which returns to the world of
'The Golden Compass.'
America in 737
Novels: To quote Flannery O’Connor, "The best American
fiction has always been regional." Here is a map of American lit proving
just that.
Arts Journal - Words
Millennials Are The Greatest Generation, At Least In Library-Going Terms
Yep. They’re more likely than Gen-X and Boomers – and way more likely than the Silent Generation – to visit the library. Maybe this is why? “Due in large part to libraries’ egalitarian nature, their events, teach-ins, and classes are free and open, making them natural hubs for underemployed millennials seeking skills to break out of their parents’ homes.” Also, of course, the books are free.
Off the Shelf
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Publishers Lunch
Today's Meal
In the UK, former president and coo of Parragon Paul Gregory will become
chief executive of Bonnier UK's Igloo Books Group, on September 11, reporting
to Perminder Mann.
Abby Ranger, formerly senior editor for HarperCollins Children's has left to launch editorial freelance business Abby Ranger Editorial.
Picks
The Costco Pennie's Pick for July is Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani.
Bookselling
Miami's Bookstore in the Grove, which was headed for closure earlier in June, remains open as owner Felice Dubin is "in discussions with a potential new owner to take over the store." Most inventory is on sale.
Penguin Random House's Signature Views posted a five-minute "mini-doc" shot as new Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic was preparing to open earlier this spring.
Revealed
Knopf Children's released the jacket for Philip Pullman's forthcoming THE BOOK OF DUST: La Belle Sauvage, publishing on October 19. Set 10 years before The Golden Compass, Pullman indicated in a recent statement that the title refers to a boat, "and her owner is a boy, Malcolm Polstead, the hero of this story whom we have seen in an earlier part of Lyra's story."
Abby Ranger, formerly senior editor for HarperCollins Children's has left to launch editorial freelance business Abby Ranger Editorial.
Picks
The Costco Pennie's Pick for July is Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani.
Bookselling
Miami's Bookstore in the Grove, which was headed for closure earlier in June, remains open as owner Felice Dubin is "in discussions with a potential new owner to take over the store." Most inventory is on sale.
Penguin Random House's Signature Views posted a five-minute "mini-doc" shot as new Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic was preparing to open earlier this spring.
Revealed
Knopf Children's released the jacket for Philip Pullman's forthcoming THE BOOK OF DUST: La Belle Sauvage, publishing on October 19. Set 10 years before The Golden Compass, Pullman indicated in a recent statement that the title refers to a boat, "and her owner is a boy, Malcolm Polstead, the hero of this story whom we have seen in an earlier part of Lyra's story."
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