Selina Tusitala Marsh in an #NZCYA Books Alive event with LIANZA

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Date2020-08-06CollectionLIANZA Books AliveEventLIANZA Books Alive, 2020Duration1:00:32DescriptionSelina Tusitala Marsh, finalist author of Mophead talks with librarians and children from Nelson Public Library and Tararua District Libraries about her book, her life and how a Poet-Laureate became a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Oh, and how she did the illustrations!

Mophead is many things, and almost defies genre. Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh has produced an engaging, inspirational, aspirational autobiographical picture book that roams full and untamed, and will leave a powerful mark on all who read it. The result is visually unique and shows us we are not defined by ‘what’ we are, but ‘WHO’ we are. Mophead is, in equal measure, tart and delicious, a treat.

This year an innovative approach to the Books Alive events, associated with the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, has been created in response to challenges caused by the pandemic.

Books Alive finalist events and virtual storytimes are being offered online for the first time. We are celebrating and promoting the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalist books, authors and illustrators and publishers to new audiences around the country.

School and public libraries have worked with finalists to create a series of online events for children, students, parents, caregivers and whanau to enjoy. We hope you take time to view and share a Books Alive event or virtual storytime.

You can purchase the finalist books through our virtual bookshop:
https://www.thechildrensbookshop.co.n...

Mophead
By Selina Tusitala Marsh
Published by Auckland University Press
Finalist for Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction

Selina Tusitala Marsh in an #NZCYA Books Alive event with LIANZA

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Selina Tusitala Marsh in an #NZCYA Books Alive event with LIANZA