BOOK WEEK - Term Two - 29th June 2016 - New Zealand Book Council - Visiting Author 2016

TIM TIPENE

Favona Primary School had the privilege of Tim Tipene as our visiting author for 2016, through the New Zealand Book Council 'Writer's in Schools.' 

Tim Tipene, is a children's writer and founder of Warrior Kids, a community organisation working with at-risk children.

This is the second time Tim has visited Favona as a visiting author, the last time was seven years ago.

Students and Staff were inspired by his life story and how he became an author. Tim read 'Taming the taniwha' and 'Hinemoa te toa'. Students were focused and really enjoyed his impersonation of the characters as he read. 

I would highly recommend Tim for Book Week if you are wanting an author.

JUST A QUICK NOTE:
He said that his new book will be out around November called 'Sun Catcher' but yet the name could still change to 'Maui's Sun Catcher.'  So keep an eye out for that story, as I will be.

Roly the Anzac Donkey

Adapted from The donkey man, originally published: Auckland : Reed, 2004
Includes factual information on the Gallipolli Campaign and the life of Richard Alexander Henderson
Summary: 'Hello. My name is Roly. I'm a donkey. Let me tell you about the time during the First World War when I worked at a place called Gallipoli. I met a man there from New Zealand who was very special. He and I worked as a team to help rescue soldiers who had been hurt in battle.' Based on real people and events, this is the heartwarming story of Richard Alexander Henderson, a soldier in the New Zealand Medical Corps, and the donkey he discovers wandering and hungry on a Gallipoli road. Richard and Roly form a strong friendship and, working together, they courageously save the lives of many wounded soldiers. But now the army has received top-secret orders to leave Gallipoli - and quickly. All the donkeys must be left behind. Richard is heartbroken. What will become of his dear friend Roly? (Publisher)

Changing Times : the story of a New Zealand town and its newspaper

 Other Title: Story of New Zealand town and its newspaper
For more information about the history of New Zealand, as written about in this book, see: mattsnewspaper.blogspot.co.nz
Summary: Matt McPherson is cycling around town  delivering the last edition of the town newspaper, The New Zealand Times. It is being closed by its owners. Using wonderfully detailed illustrations of the changing landscape of the town in combination with excerpts from the newspaper, author Bob Kerr takes the reader through a brief history of New Zealand, from the first settlers up to the present day. At the end of the book, we find Matt saving the newspaper by appointing himself editor, putting it online and running it from his laptop. Here the reader can actually go online to a website related to the book to learn more about New Zealand history, and access our national online encyclopedia, Te Ara. Changing times is a fascinating introduction to our history for 7-12 year olds. It will also engage parents and grandparents who will recognise their own lives and family histories in its pages. (Publisher)

The little Kiwi's Matariki

Summary: Can you feel it coming? The little kiwi knows a special time of year is almost here. But will she wake up her friends in time? (Back cover)

The Ghosts of Tarawera

New Zealand author
Summary: On holiday near Rotorua, Joe and Eddie are fascinated by the area's bubbling mud pools and boiling geysers. Local volcanologist Rocky tells them about the Pink and White Terraces that existed on the lake where they're staying, and how they were destroyed in the cataclysmic 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. But Joe's fascination turns to unease when strange sightings on the lake and dark rumblings from the Earth hint that the volcano is reawakening. Can he persuade Rocky, who puts his faith only in science, to sound a warning? (Back cover)

Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters

Summary: An apartment full of questions on a street full of mysteries. Why does Squishy have to share everything with her new step-sisters? Why is her next-door neighbor the crankiest man in the world? Why are green jelly snakes the yummiest? Who's that hiding in the basement

Squishy Taylor and the Mess-Makers

Summary:  An apartment full of questions on a street full of mysteries. What's the best way to sneak onto a film set? Why do grown-ups trust you more when you're carrying a baby? Is a pizza even a pizza without mozzarella? What do you do when everyone hates your hero? (Back cover)

The bold ship phenomenal

New Zealand author
Summary: Malachi's life is dull, dull, dull. Dad's always busy and school is dreary, especially science. Then Malachi finds a mysterious bottle on the seashore, and things start to get exciting. What he discovers inside the bottle sends Malachi on the journey of his life. But pirates, smugglers, police and a grumpy pig soon have Malachi regretting his thirst for adventure. There are battles to be won, and the only one who can fight them is Malachi. Can he save himself and the bottle? And what about the pig

The knot impossible : Rufkin's travels in four parts : a tale of Fontania

New Zealand author
Summary: Rufkin must learn to try harder. He is sent to work in a salvage yard, where vicious cave lizards lurk in the mud, among rusting ship hulks saved for scrap. When he hears a small voice cry elp!from the riverbank mangroves, Rufkin and his reluctant new neighbour, Nissy, are caught up in a perilous sea adventure that threatens to bring the end-of-days. Rufkin, the boy who suffers stage-fright, is suddenly centre stage: the only one who can right an ancient wrong and save the kingdom. (Publisher)

Dogfight

Summary: Our hero is Claude D'Bonair, a young pilot in the cat air corp, keen to prove his worth to the older pilots and live up to the memory of his father. Will cats and dogs ever live in harmony again? Will Claude survive with his nine lives intact? In Book 1: Dogfight, Claude must fly a secret and dangerous mission deep into the heart of Dogz held territory to save the air corp's most famous dogfighter, Major Tom, who is being held prisoner in the Dogz castle HQ. If he fails it could spell cat-astrophe for the whole of katdom

First to the top : Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure

Summary: How did Ed, a small, shy boy from New Zealand, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everst and do so many other astonishing things? This book tells the story of Sir Edmund Hillary and his climb to the top of Mt Everest

Nibbles the book monster

Includes giant flaps and peek through holes
Summary: Nibbles, the book eating monster, has nibbled his way out of his own book and now he's causing mischief and mayhem in other people's stories

Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land

Summary: Explores the experiences of immigrants in the twenty-first century, focusing on the lives of children. Images of families who went to the United States from many different parts of the world celebrate the diversity of the United States

Finding Monkey Moon

Summary: Michael and Monkey Moon are inseparable - especially when it's time for bed. But one night Monkey Moon is nowhere to be found and Michael's search for him goes way beyond the toy box

Clarrie's pig day out

Summary: Clarrie is a farmer who sometimes gets his words mixed up. So when he jumps in his car it's bound to be a day filled with surprises and adventure

Hush: a kiwi lullaby

Summary: The traditional lullaby 'Hush Little Baby', retold with a strong New Zealand flavour. A baby is promised a series of items including a woolly sheep, kowhai flowers and singing tui