Children - Books and reading

Date: June 1984

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

By: Baker, Eric, active 1984

Reference: PA1-q-1078

Description: Album of photographs of library scenes at Wellington schools, taken June 1984 by Eric Baker, Principal of Roseneath School Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 305 x 275 mm Transfers: Transfers - From Manuscripts & Archives : 2009-168 : National Library of New Zealand. School Library Service. See also Published Collections.

Date: 1990 - 2000

From: Eyework Design & Production :[Ephemera and posters. 1988-2004]

Reference: Eph-D-EYEWORK-Books

Description: Includes: 1990: 1990 Aim Children's Book Week. April 21 - 29 1990. Fun with books for children - in schools, libraries and booksellers throughout New Zealand 1990 Aim Children's Book Week. April 21 - 29 1990. Great New Zealand books for children of all ages (2 copies) 2000: Books alive! A fun experience bringing books to life for children. Capital E! Civic Square Wellington, 3 April - 28 May 2000 [Yellow and red poster]. (2 copies) Books alive! A fun experience bringing books to life for children. Capital E! Civic Square Wellington, 3 April - 28 May 2000 [Blue and red poster]. (2 copies) Quantity: 4 Poster(s). Physical Description: Offset and digital prints, 595 x 420 mm.

Date: [ca 1990s]

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA12-8879

Description: Colour transparency slides relating to Services to Schools (School Library Services) National Library of New Zealand circa 1990s. Photographers unidentified. Some may have been taken by Dylan Owen. Chiefly views of the interiors of unidentified school libraries, some slides show children reading. There is also a view of the exterior of a library at Waitotara, Taranaki region, located next to a butcher's shop. Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1998

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1318

Description: Panel includes photographs of: Sister Cushla Vickers in the parish sacristy, and with the Parish Bridge Club Sister Margaret D'Ath, Editor, assembling the Diocesan newsletter and as an adult education tutor. Sister Mary Newman-Watt helping Parish school children to read, and befriending a knitter for St Vincent de Paul. Quantity: 1 panel comprising 6 colour prints.

Date: 2 April 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1981/1331-F

Description: Hans Christian Anderson Day at Wellington Girls College. Rachel Bush reading `The Sex Pistols' during a reading spell to mark International Children's Book Day. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 2nd of April 1981. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1925-1995

By: White, Dorothy Mary Neal, 1915-1995

Reference: MS-Group-1262

Description: Comprises diaries and notebooks, correspondence and draft articles on children's reading, librarianship and literature in general. Also included are papers and letters on her study at Canterbury University College, her early library work and her time with the Carnegie School of Librarianship in Pittsburgh (1937-1939). Her personal papers contain family and personal letters, memoranda and housekeeping details, which give a detailed picture of Dunedin middle class life in the 1950s. There also papers relating to her first husband, Dick White, the Dunedin bookseller and actor. She collected brochures, printed material and newspaper cuttings on a wide variety of topics, especially on children's literature and on the Otago Branch of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, of which she was a keen supporter. A committed lay member of the Anglican communion in Dunedin, she also kept papers relating to church work and to St Paul's Cathedral. Finding aid updated with information provided by reseacher, February 2016. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Divided into series by format and subject. Dorothy Neal White, a noted librarian specialising in children's literature, radio broadcaster and writer, had studied at the Carnegie School of Librarianship in the 1930s and worked from the 1940s at the Dunedin Public Library. The Dorothy Neal White Collection of children's literature at the Nastional Library of New Zealand was named in her honour. Quantity: 243 folder(s). 85 volume(s). 3 box(es). 5.27 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms V Feltham, Wellington, 2004 Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Several pamphlets - To Photographic Archive - 42 black and white, 4 colour original photographic prints from A2004-056 (PAColl-7953).

Date: c 1984

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1079

Description: Album of photographs of primary school children involved in various activities in school libraries, probably in the Wellington Region, ca 1984 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 355 mm Transfers: Transfers - From Manuscripts & Archives : 2009-168 : National Library of New Zealand. School Library Service. See also Published Collections.

Date: 1845, 1888, [ca 1915-1940s]

From: Campbell family : Papers

Reference: 82-003-3A

Description: Material mainly relates to overseas travel; also includes `Practical suggestions to a young clergyman' by a parish minister [Dublin, 1845]; `Strange tales from humble life' by John Ashworth No 31 "My sick friends" Part 2. [Published in Manchester, nd]; `Active service pocket book' by Bertrand Stewart, fifth edition, enlarged, ca 1915; `Border ballads', 1888; book plate with the crest of Robert Carpenter (with motto `per Acuta Belli'); Tararua Tramping Club Inc - Notes on trip leading (cyclostyled booklet compiled by L D Bridge 1944); copies of The NZ School Journal, Apr 1930 to Nov 1931 (in binder with list of "Books I have read" on inside cover, Duncan Brown Std 6); Passenger list of NZSSCo ship RMS Rangitiki voyage from Wellington to London, Mar 1937 (Tythe Brown was a passenger). Other Titles - The NZ school journal Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Printed matter Finding Aids: Partial listing in back file (some items on list have been transferred to published collections). Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Miscellaneous published maps for appraisal - To Ephemera Collection - Five miscellaneous items - To Book Collections - PR-08-0513 - To Serials Collection - PR-08-0515.

Date: 1951 - 1959

By: Auckland City Libraries

Reference: Eph-A-LIBRARY-1950s-01/05

Description: Reading lists with titles: Picture books; a selection of books for the 3 to 7 year old available at central and branch libraries Books for boys; a selection of books for the 11 to 14 year old available at central and branch libraries For the young miss; a selection of books for girls from 11 to 14 available at central and branch libraries Growing up; a selection of books for boys and girls over 14 available at central and branch libraries Tales for the 8-10 year old; a selection of books available at central and branch libraries Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on folded pamphlets, 228 x 122 mm. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into the Manuscripts Section, transfers made from there..

Date: [ca 1925-1930]

Reference: PAColl-0407

Description: Photographs of the construction and use of Fendalton Open-air School. Includes photographs of the children being given lessons outside, in their open air classroom with snowmen outside, playing on a rugby field, the Sheffield Hotel and two women and a man standing outside the hotel with their dogs. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-068944 to 068946, 068949 to 068961, and 068963 Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1984

By: New Zealand. Learning Media

Reference: MS-Papers-11709

Description: Typescript of report on the New Zealand School Journal in 1984 by Booth and Jamieson for the Department of Education. Includes appendices, tables and bibliography. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Processing information: Transferred from Alexander Turnbull Library Book Collections, 2014. From Book Collections - Booth and Jamieson report on the New Zealand School Journal (PR-14-0134)

Date: 1983 - 2011

From: Simpson, Gordon Alan and Cecilia Mary: Papers and photographs

Reference: MS-Papers-11968-5

Description: Papers relating to Gordon Alan Simpson, covering the years 1983 to 2011. Chiefly concern his headship at Waka Aranga Primary School in Pakuranga from 1981 to 1985. They include his notes on reading programmes as part of children's learning process. Also contains biographical notes on Simpson. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940 - 1959

From: [Posters and advertising ephemera purchased 2016 at Art + Object. 1910-1960]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-PRINTING-Whitcombe

Description: Includes: Children's Book Week; add to your children's bookshelf this week! There is pride in book ownership; good books are good company [1940-1950s?] J R Bruce Ltd: Bruce's JRB Aorangi (malted) biscuits. J R Bruce Ltd. Timaru [1940-1950s?] Printer assumed to be Whitcombe & Tombs Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and chromolithograph, sizes varying up to 1110 mm. Provenance: Likely to be from the collection of Ferrymead Printing Society.

Date: ca 1970s-1980s

From: New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association :Photographs

By: Oettli, Max Christian, 1947-; Westra, Ans, 1936-2023

Reference: PAColl-8028-06

Description: Photographs collected by the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association for use in the PPTA Journal. Includes photographs of an anti-nuclear demonstration, students involved in various activities, school buildings, Maori students, students visiting marae, and scenes at a community college in Hastings. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheets). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1884

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Garden, Isabella Mary Bedford, 1868-

Reference: E-312-q-101

Description: Shows a young girl sitting on the side of an armchair reading a book The same girl is shown in a different position on the chair at E-312-q-099 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - M K 1884 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 197 mm

Date: 1913-2002

By: Pollitt, William Albert John, 1913-2002

Reference: MS-Papers-10138

Description: Memoir of John Pollitt's life, in the form of an autobiography for the earlier years. Extended as a memoir by his wife, including his career as a primary school teacher, working rural schools in the king Country and later as inaugural principal of Fergusson Intemediate and then Raroa Normal Intermediate schools. Includes transcript of an interview conducted at Victoria University by Claire Toynbee, covering Pollitt's early life in rural New Zealand, near Auckland; paper by John Pollitt on boys' stories and authors in the nineteenth century Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs F E Pollitt, Wellington, 2010

Date: 2009

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0011868

Description: A large crowd of children queue at the door of a book store which is advertising a book called 'Working with clay' by Harry the Potter; they think they are queuing for another book in the famous 'Harry Potter' series by J. K. Rowling. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DX-014-558

Description: A woman reads from chapter 125 of a book about Cambridge High School. Her son, in bed, is fast asleep. Relates to the series of troubles at the school, during which the principal and the school board were fired, in 2004. Extended Title - Cambridge High School. Bedtime stories. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-312-q-065

Description: Consists of 6 different pictures on one page, by several different artists, all individually catalogued Quantity: 6 drawing(s) on one page. Physical Description: Watercolours and pen and ink, various sizes

Date: 2005

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013056

Description: Shows a teenage girl reading the latest Harry Potter books and has discarded the playstation and television. Refers to how the Harry Potter series has encouraged a generation of young readers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).