Answer a Question and Win

Where is your favourite place to read? Is it in the library or in your bedroom? Perhaps you prefer the fresh air outside or a busy place such as a cafe with a book in one hand and a snack in the other.

Choose your favourite place from the list below. Submit your entry via the Google Form below (open to Kāpiti District residents only). The winner will be drawn at the next Wrappers meeting on September 4th. 

The Wrappers Recommend

Books discussed, liked and recommended at the August Wrappers meeting.

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

Mandy Hager Wins Book of the Year

Great news -  our very own local author, Mandy Hager, has won the overall prize at the 2015 N.Z. Children’s Book Awards.  Her novel, Singing Home the Whale, won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award and the Best Young Adult Fiction award.  Mandy is great supporter of Kāpiti Libraries and a very talented author.   

  

Other awards went to:

Best picture book - Jim's Letters by Glyn Harper, illustrated by Jenny Cooper
Best junior fiction - Monkey Boy by Donovan Bixley 
Best non-fiction - Motiti Blue and the Oil Spill by Debbie McCauley and Tamati Waaka
Maori language - Nga Ki by Sacha Cotter, translated by Kawata Teepa

Best first book - Maori Art for Kids by Julie Noanoa