Our most recent display in the library was to celebrate New Zealand’s National Poetry Day! Which was on Friday 23rd August. #NationalPoetryDayNZ #SpinePoetry Thanks to our wonderful student librarians who’ve created poems and found books with interesting spines for this display. Continue reading Māpuna Library’s National Poetry Day NZ: Spine Poetry Display 2024!
Author: Sharon Kernot Published: 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Poetry, Historical fiction, YA By: Emma Star Rating: 4/5 stars The Art of Taxidermy is a book about a young girl called Lottie, who at the age of eleven fell in love with the beauty of death. Lottie collects all sorts of animals that have passed because she sees beauty within them and hopes to preserve them and save them. Her aunt … Continue reading Book Review: The Art of Taxidermy
Author: Lily Myers Published: 2017 Genres: Poetry, Contemporary, Mental Health, YA By: Ashlin Lily Myers’s novel This Impossible Light is an abstract glimpse into Ivy’s life as she experiences a chain of changes in her life, not all of which are for the better. This book is beautiful, eloquent and insightful. Ivy is seeing changes in her appearance as she develops a more womanly figure; changes in the relationship she has with … Continue reading Book Review: This Impossible Light
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