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New Zealand voices from the Somme.

It’s a bit late in the day to be drawing your attention to this in case you haven’t seen it already, but today, 8 September, is the 50 anniversary of International Literacy Day with the theme “Reading the past, Writing the future”.

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The extraordinary life of James Pomeroy, inventor.

Digitising the wartime diaries of Norman Gray.

An ode to poems and poets.

Last week Auckland hosted the 35^th IBBY International Congress. The theme of the 4 day event, Literature in a Multi-literate World, gave the 500 or so delegates from over 60 countries the chance to discuss and reflect on what it means to be literate.