A free session with Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop at the Marlborough Book Festival.
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Annual is a PANZ Book Design Awards winner… times three!
Annual has won the Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book, the Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography, and the first Hachette New Zealand People’s Choice Award. A big congratulations to Spencer Levine, and to all of the winners and finalists. How lovely to have your beautiful books celebrated. To read more, visit… Read more »
Sainbury’s Children’s Book Awards
The shortlist for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards has been announced, and Little Rabbit is in good company!
Curiously Good Event: Pizza and books
Our most recent Curiously Good Book Club event brought reading (and pizza) to three primary schools.
Drawing inspiration with Kieran Rynhart
“I wanted my images to fill out this child’s inner world and imagination, and to give it a sense of space and a sense of feeling of a child who knows a little bit of solitude, but also knows joy and humour as well”
Wolf Erlbruch, ‘a careful and caring visionary’
“Children do not need pink elephants or cute cats. They want more interesting stories that are new to them.”
Curiously Good Book Club Event: Reading-alouding!
Come to Porirua Library and learn how to be a a good reader-alouder!
The Curiously Good Book Club – thank you to everyone so far!
Gecko Press is in the last days of our crowdfunding campaign to help build the Curiously Good Book Club – the deadline is 6 pm June 21. The aim of the Club is simple – that every child loves to read. To do that, we want to take books to places and people where they are not… Read more »
All the Wonders of Don’t Cross the Line!
Break the rules and step across the line! This month, Don’t Cross the Line! is featured over at the beautiful picture book blog, All the Wonders.
Our friend John
John McIntyre of the Children’s Bookshop Kilbirnie was a champion and friend of many, and myself and all of us at Gecko Press are just very sad that he has died. Our hearts go to Ruth and the Children’s Bookshop and all his family, many of whom we met at his 65th birthday this year…. Read more »
