Hot Off the New Zealand Presses
May 17, 2006
The New Zealand Post book of the year is Hunter, by Joy Cowley, and the New Zealand Herald says the survival story for 9 to 12 year olds was inspired by moa hunters, among other things. If you're wondering what I was wondering, a moa is an extinct flightless bird. (I looked it up.) Cowley, the author of some 500 books for beginning readers, had some stiff competition; one of the other books under consideration was written by Margaret Mahy, who recently won the Hans Christian Andersen prize.
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