STORYLINES FAMILY FUN DAY

This post is coming to you, not from a library in Rodney, but from Whangarei. I am currently travelling around the north with several authors and an illustrator as part of the Storylines Festival Schools Tour. Yesterday Tim Tipene, Donovan Bixley, Janine McVeagh and Diana Menefy visited schools at Matakohe and around Dargaville. Today it is the turn of some of the Whangarei Schools.

Tomorrow, Saturday, the Storylines Family Fun Day will be hosted by the Whangarei Central Library. This is your chance to meet some of your favourite authors, listen to some fantastic storytelling, watch illustrators at work, be entertained, facepainted, enter competitions... It's all happening from 10am - 2pm. Check out this website link for the programme or pick one up at the library.

Then on Sunday there is an even bigger Family Fun Day at the Aotea Centre in Auckland. There will be more of the above on every level of the Centre and I hear Margaret Mahy will be putting in an appearance (which you may need to turn up early for), but the guest list reads like a Who's Who of Kiwi children's literature (Check it out here). You will also see some familiar Rodney faces (local authors and local librarians).

Did I mention it is all FREE!! Hope to see everyone at Auckland on Sunday and to meet some more friendly folk from the north tomorrow.

Ka kite