This month, New Zealand Book Month celebrates New Zealand and International books encouraging all Kiwis nationwide to get involved in their “Books Change Lives” campaign.
The aim is to celebrate and highlight the power of the book - to be an active part of our everyday lives – shaping who we are and what we can be as individuals and as a nation.
From the North Island to the South Island, from neighbour, school bus to sporting field, workplace to playground, New Zealand Book Month encourages people of all ages to engage with books - to share the book or books that changed their lives, recommend books, and to reach out to new readers to read.
“Children growing up in homes with books get 3 more years schooling than children with bookless homes, independent of their parents’ education, occupation and class” Evans, M.D.R., Kelley, J., Sikora, .J and Treiman, D. (2010). Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations, ScienceDirect.
A fantastic programme of over 200 events scaling across the country and across the month of March have been organised by volunteer activists, all of whom are passionate librarians, booksellers, readers and writers. From New Zealand to visiting international author talks, literary readings to poetry, lectures to exhibitions, book launches to festivals, story-telling for kids to rugby in literature, haunted castles to blind cooking, and blogging to quizzes there is an event for all age groups and genres. For full event details visit their website – www.nzbookmonth.co.nz
A non-profit initiative, New Zealand Book Month works alongside a wide range of organisations fundamental to books and reading in New Zealand. Publishers, booksellers, libraries, schools and activists provide the necessary support to make New Zealand Book Month a success. Plus, thanks to their many sponsors, New Zealand Book Month delivers information, publicity, people, ideas and energy necessary to support events and activities that bring books and reading alive.
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