New Zealand Book Month
A DigitalNZ Story by Donna Robertson
March is New Zealand Book Month. Here are some images of books, readers, writers, libraries and bookshops.
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Portrait of author Witi Ihimaera
Alexander Turnbull Library
(Two woman in period dress holding books and hat boxes)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
"Do you think we'll still be reading books in 20 years?" 22 February 2011
Alexander Turnbull Library
New Zealand Book Month logo
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Writer Pat Quinn at St Brendan's School
Upper Hutt City Library
Salvation Army; book by Captain Barbara Sampson on lives of 28 Army women.
Upper Hutt City Library
Miniature books
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Visitors' books , New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939-40.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Library - Tiny Theatre - Treasure Chest
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Three women choosing books at Rahotu
Alexander Turnbull Library
Child photographed against shelves of books
Alexander Turnbull Library
'Self-help books'. 13 May, 2008
Alexander Turnbull Library
New Zealand People:
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
People selecting books in a Country Library Service Bookvan
Alexander Turnbull Library
Still life of books, bust of Lord Byron, candle.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Brian Stenner, Rainbow Books, Riddiford St., Newtown, 18/11/2005
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Class photo with children holding books, Te One School, Chatham Islands
Alexander Turnbull Library
A Grammar of the New Zealand Language
Auckland Libraries
New Zealand: Wanganui Collegiate School
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
United States troops reading books and newspapers at the Hotel Cecil in Wellington during World War II
Alexander Turnbull Library
Walter Buller. A history of birds in New Zealand.
Auckland Libraries
World War I New Zealand soldiers with a copy of 'New Zealand at the Front'
Alexander Turnbull Library
Chief Librarian, General Assembly Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Alexander Turnbull Library
Chief Librarian, General Assembly Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Alexander Turnbull Library
Author Joy Cowley
Alexander Turnbull Library
Author Guthrie Wilson, and others
Alexander Turnbull Library
Author Barry Crump, while rabbitting at Reporoa
Alexander Turnbull Library
Mr B. Wells, author of: History of Taranaki
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Interior [#2], R.H. Morrieson room, Hawera, 23 March 1993
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Ngaio Marsh
Alexander Turnbull Library
Katherine Mansfield at her work table, Villa Isola, Menton, France
Alexander Turnbull Library
New Zealand writers at a PEN reception
Alexander Turnbull Library
Unnamed New Zealand writers at a PEN reception
Alexander Turnbull Library
Members of the New Zealand Women Writers' Society
Alexander Turnbull Library
Dennis McEldowney, writer
Alexander Turnbull Library
Eileen May Duggan, poet and writer
Alexander Turnbull Library
Portrait of author Maurice Gee
Alexander Turnbull Library
Locke, Elsie Violet, 1912-2001 :Photograph of writer Elsie Locke
Alexander Turnbull Library
Creator unknown :Photograph of Jane Mander taken by E C Lackland
Alexander Turnbull Library
[Butler, Samuel] 1835-1902 :[Self portrait. 1866?]
Alexander Turnbull Library
Frank Sargeson
Alexander Turnbull Library
Iris Wilkinson [Robin Hyde]
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Dargaville book launch - As I See It
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Photograph of Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Alexander Turnbull Library
Photograph of Dan Davin
Alexander Turnbull Library
Novelist, Marilyn Duckworth, with others
Alexander Turnbull Library
Photograph of Sylvia Ashton-Warner sitting at her typewriter
Alexander Turnbull Library
Witi Ihimaera
Alexander Turnbull Library
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Alexander Turnbull Library
Dick Scott. 20 September, 2007.
Alexander Turnbull Library
James Cowan at his desk, writing
Alexander Turnbull Library
Portrait of biographer Michael King
Alexander Turnbull Library
Hone Tuwhare
Alexander Turnbull Library
Charlotte Grimshaw. 15 October, 2006.
Alexander Turnbull Library
"The Arts Council will be thrilled - Witi's starting another book." 23 November 2009
Alexander Turnbull Library
Portrait of Denis Glover, 1973
Alexander Turnbull Library
Grant, Alastair, 1938- : Photograph of Maurice Shadbolt
Alexander Turnbull Library
Ngaio Marsh and Frank Sargeson
Alexander Turnbull Library
Sylvia Ashton-Warner and her husband, Keith Henderson
Alexander Turnbull Library
Mary Anne Barker and her husband Frederick Napier Broome
Alexander Turnbull Library
Mr A H Reed with Mrs J M Reed and Miss H Reed, Government House, Wellington
Alexander Turnbull Library
Literature discussion group, Tukaki wharenui, Te Kaha-nui-a-tiki marae, Te Kaha. Witi Ihimaera and Rowley Habib/Hapipi. June 1973
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, Bob Lowry, and unidentified friend.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Keith Sinclair and Karl Stead 1969
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Group of Wellington writers in the study of Pat Lawlor's home
Alexander Turnbull Library