Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa released the lists of 2021 Storylines Notable Book Award winners on 3 November. The chosen
Ben Brown, Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador, is spreading a powerful message about the importance of reading, and of reading to your tamariki.
Ten children’s novels named as Notable; two highly commended The 2021 Storylines Junior Fiction Notable Books list, covering novels published from 1 January 2020 to
Sarah Forster – 2021 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award Winner Wellington’s Sarah Forster is the recipient of the 2021 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for outstanding service
Storylines Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa was delighted to work with award sponsor Scholastic New Zealand to launch the Storylines Joy Cowley Award
The appointment of writer Ben Brown (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti Paoa) Ben Brown as the inaugural Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador for
The Girls in the Kapa Haka by Angie Belcher, illustrated by Debiie Tipuna, published by Penguin Random House, is the 2021 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for
Storylines and Kiwi Write4Kids are jointly organising Spinning Tales – a national hui for children’s writers’ and illustrators’, for published and unpublished writers and illustrators.
The founder of the Christchurch School for Young Writers, Dr Glyn Strange, is the winner of the 2010 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for outstanding service to the development of literature and literacy in New Zealand children. Dr Strange began the not-for-profit school in 1993, originally as a regional enterprise but now very much a national institution.
We are delighted that Joy Cowley, one of Storylines’ patrons, and a trustee of the Storylines Trust, was honoured in Wellington on Monday evening with the 2010 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in fiction.