I'm a school librarian who loves children's & YA books. My children's novel Canterbury Quake My New Zealand Story was a Childrens choice finalist 2015
Christchurch, New Zealand
Joined July 2011
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Help. It’s never been harder to be a MG author. The latest blow— @goodreads erasing MG from the Goodreads Choice Awards—comes after so many gutting attacks, decisions and policies that are crushing discoverability of our books. If you love MG, if you want kids to have books that reflect the world around them, we need you to shout from the rooftops about the books u love! Comment below w ur favorite new MG book! Let’s save middle grade together! #MiddleGrade #Publishing
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such a super delight to collab with the generous and generously talented Helena Pantsis, and what a treat to be in @theoffingmag! 💖
so excited to have this poem/comic collab up at @theoffingmag!! could not have conjured up half this art myself without the beautiful prose and imagery of @ZoeMeager's poetry 💖🥹🏊♂️
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Poetry Box children reviewers: Harry (11) reviews Annual 3 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/20…
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My new idea to get children to illustrate poems by poets has taken off like wildfire. With so few children's poetry books published or still in print in nz, this feels like a vital resource. I have a waiting list of keen young illustrators. So much good in this whole project.
Poetry Box illustrates poems: Olivia, Ray and Georgia illustrate Richard Langston’s Lighthouse nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/20…
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Poetry Box reviews by children: Ivana (10) reviews Michael Rosen’s I Am Angry nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/20…
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Children illustrators wanted for a new Poetry Box series nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/20…
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This article from @thebookseller provides a sobering insight into what happens to children's reading skills when school libraries are not available to them. It's also an inspiring story about rebuilding after COVID-19. #oztl
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I have a great list of children who are doing reviews for Poetry Box now. They get a copy of the book and a koha book voucher from me. If you know a keen young reader/writer who would like to join my list let me know (Y1 to Y8). Let's celebrate and nourish our young voices. ⭐️🐈⬛
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#throwbackMicroMadnessWinners2021 Desna Wallace – Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand @Edna331
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We are VERY excited to announce a national week to celebrate School Libraries in Aotearoa NZ.
Join us 8-12 August for a celebration of everything we do in our school libraries for our school communities across the motu.
Watch this space for some fantastic and fun resources.
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When Tom and Elizabeth checked their phones
The news was grey with dread,
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Join us in celebration as we launch our new snazzy website and T102
We will be giving out spot prizes on our social media and posting videos of our contributors reading out their work that will be in T102 so stay tuned!
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This is the super power of a school librarian! 📚❤📚
Kids who READ FOR PLEASURE do better in every way than kids who don't. So whatever else you do, never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop giving them ways to understand the world, and everyone in it. #literacy
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Win a copy of BatKiwi or Ko PekaKiwi, written by me, illustrated by @izzyjoyart and published by @scholasticnz Instructions on the blogpost below #WinABook #PictureBook #BatKiwi melindaszymanik.blogspot.com…
Desna Wallace retweeted
Spuddle: a useful verb from the 17th century that means to work feebly and ineffectively, because your mind is elsewhere or you haven’t quite woken up yet.
