I’ve been doing a project with these Writing Warriors from Dawson Primary School in Ōtara. We’re making a pukapuka together in which they star as superheroes. These tamariki are creative, clever, imaginative, inspiring!
Amazing day celebrating Matariki-Puanga with a book launch at Leabank School in Manurewa. These awesome young scholars are now published authors and illustrators and the world gets to read and admire their talents in their own pukapuka Te Whetū o te Kōrero – Star of a Story. There’s so many talented young people in our…
I’ve been working with an awesome group of Niue young people and their families at Favona Primary School in Māngere. This week we launched a collection of their writing in Vagahau Niue and English to celebrate Niue Language Week. I love how storytelling brings generations together. Check out the book here: https://readingwarrior.com/product/ko-au-ko-e-tama-niue/
Celebrating 10 newly published South Auckland writers. I wanted to be a writer when I was 10 years old at Viscount School in Māngere but never met a writer so I didn’t think someone like me could do that. That’s why I love these projects with young champions, helping them see they can do this…
When positive role models inspire (breathe life into) the next generation it’s always powerful. Janine Williams and her husband Charles are amazing – you can see their murals and sculpture all over NZ and in NY, France, China and the Pacific too. Janine is Ōtara-raised and shared wisdom with young writers at her old school,…
I’m so happy this book has been shortlisted in the NZ Children’s Book Awards. It means more children will read Alistair Te Ariki Campbell’s awesome poem and get to know his work. Sarah’s illustrations are so beautiful! Yu can purchase a copy here: https://readingwarrior.com/product/poem-for-ataahua/
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