Children's books

Date: 1850 - 1900

By: Wood, George Henry, 1874-1945

Reference: WOOD

Description: 3024 mounted prints, grouped according to artist. Quantity: 3024 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white prints mounted on sheets, sizes approximately 335 x 223 mm Transfers: Other material from the same provenance is at MSX-7409, qMS-2287, and the formed George Henry Wood Collection. Wood's collection of lantern slides is at PA11-036..

Date: 1972

From: [Ephemera of octavo size promoting the publication of books and new book titles]

By: Gateway Bookshop (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-BOOK-1972-01

Description: Catalogue of children's books arranged in order of the age group for which the book is suited. The inside front cover has a photograph of and welcome to Margery Fisher, who came to open the show; she was an influential figure in the children's book world. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 28 pages, 207 x 165 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Helen Harvey, Wellington, in 2009.

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 1940-1952]

By: Moore & Thompson (Firm); Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Photo News Ltd; Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967

Reference: PAColl-0501

Description: Photographs of the interior of the Master Printers' Association printing shop on Lambton Quay prior to demolition showing the presses (five duplicate prints); four photographs (two duplicate) of a window display for Children's Book Week; three photographs (two duplicate) of the interior of a book shop showing displays and stationery; group photograph of conference delegates of the New Zealand Master Printers' Federation in Christchurch and other delegate photographs, one in front of the Blue Bath, Rotorua, probably of the same organisation; and two photographs with a covering letter from B J Ball (NZ) Ltd of the Wellington Master Printers and Allied Trades stand at the Wellington Industrial Exhibition in 1952. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 27 Feb 1985]

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1985/1011-F

Description: Watercress Tuna, from Patricia Grace's book "Watercress Tuna and the children of Champion Street" photographed with school children at Champion Street, Cannons Creek, Porirua. Photograph taken by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley, circa 27 February 1985. Three of these children posed for the front cover of the book and were used as the basis of three of the characters Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1905 - 1939

By: Rountree, Harry, 1878-1950; Punch (London, England)

Reference: H-687-001/012

Description: Quantity: 2 photocopy/ies printed pages (colour). 5. Physical Description: Two A4 size pages from a children's book, and five A4 size photocopies.

Date: 1963 - 1972

From: [Ephemera from the Robert G Barr Collection of Amateur Journalism]

Reference: Eph-B-BARR-5

Description: Includes ephemera produced by the Old Boys' Book Club: Lunch Party at the Royal Star Hotel Maidstone, Sunday 15 September 1963. Menu Fourth annual lunch party of the Old Boys' Club at the Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate, Sunday 4 September 1966. Menu Old Boys' Book Club lunch party. Royal Star Hotel Maidstone, Sunday 3 September 1967. Menu Old Boys' Book Club lunch party, on Sunday 8 September 1968 at the Clifton Hotel, Folkstone, Kent. menu (2 copies) London Old Boys' Book Club. Twenty-first anniversary luncheon, 20th April 1969, Rembrandt Hotel, London. Menu Old Boys' Book Club lunch party. Sunday September 5th 1971 at the Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate. Menu Old Boys' Book Club. A luncheon to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Collectors' Digest given at the Rembrandt Hotel by the London Section of the Old Boys' Book Club, on Sunday 5th December 1971. Menu The Charles Hamilton Museum At Home to members and friends of the Old Boys' Book Club, at 30 Tonbridge Road Maidstone on Sunday 21st May 1972. Menu Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying

Date: 1979-2012

By: Plumpton, Frances, active 1970-2023

Reference: ATL-Group-00876

Description: Collection of ephemera related to various New Zealand Children's Book Awards from 1979 to 2012. There were several different awards systems established with different sponsors and administrators.Comprises mostly printed matter and promotional material and includes posters, book catalogues, resource kits, judges’ reports, media releases and shortlists, and stickers. Descriptive information on the children’s book awards drawn from these sources: “AIM Children’s Book Awards 1990 – 1996”, ‘ Christchurch City Libraries’, https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/literaryprizes/aim/ “History”, ‘New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults’, https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults/history/ “History Corner: The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults”, ‘Libraries Aotearoa’, 24 August 2021. https://www.librariesaotearoa.org.nz/korero-blog/history-corner-the-new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults All accessed 12 April 2023. Title supplied by Library. Frances Plumpton has been a convenor and judge of both the LIANZA (Library and Information Association Aotearoa) and New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa established the first local children’s book award in 1945, namely the Esther Glen Award for Fiction. Other LIANZA awards followed including the Russell Clark Award for Illustration in 1975, and the Elsie Locke Non-fiction Award in 1986. The Te Kura Pounamu Award for literature written in Te Reo Mäori was established in 1996, in partnership with Te Rōpū Whakahau. From 1982 the New Zealand Literary Fund, based in the Department of Internal Affairs, administered the separate Government Publishing Awards for the New Zealand Children's Books of the Year. This award ran until 1988 until its sponsor, the Government Printer, was privatised and withdrew. Two years later, the AIM Children’s Book Awards were established as part of a Children’s Book Festival by Unilever New Zealand. In 1997 they became the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. New Zealand Post was principal sponsor until 2014. In 2016, these awards merged with the LIANZA Children’s Book Awards. Awards are made across six categories, with names incorporating the previous LIANZA award names. Quantity: 11 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material

Date: 1956 - 1957

From: Fabres, Oscar, 1894-1960 :[Illustrations for "Kerry Kangaroo", by Nola Luxford. 1956-1957]

Reference: A-428-055

Description: Shows a sketch of Oscar Fabres looking up at a thought bubble wherein a surgeon wielding large scissors, and assisted by two nurses, is operating on the stomach of a kangaroo. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, on letterhead 280 x 217 mm.

Date: 2007 - 2012

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to literature, literary events]

Reference: Eph-B-LITERATURE-2012-01

Description: Wall frieze shows twelve panel illustrations of dog and cat characters and a duckling, from Lynley Dodd's "Hairy Maclary" series of picture books. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on 3 loose sheets, 210 x 840 mm, folded into cover 210 x 210 mm. Provenance: Acquired under legal deposit in 2012.

Date: 1983 - 1984

Reference: Eph-D-BOOK-1983/1984

Description: Includes: 1983: "By batons and barbed wire"; a response to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand, [by] Tom Newnham. On sale now $14.95. Published by Real Pictures [1983] (2 copies, one missing top left corner) Jim Henderson, the long-awaited autobiography of New Zealand's master of folklore, "Down from Marble Mountain". Hodder & Stoughton [1983] Kotare Books; introducing a fantastic new series for children! Series editor betty Gilderdale. Hodder & Stoughton [1983] "Maori; a photographic and social history", [by] Michael King. Published late August, Heinemann Publishers (NZ) Ltd [1983] Oxford University Press. A bag full of New Zealand children's books [1983] "A salute to trotting". The history of harness racing in New Zealand. The ultimate authority on New Zealand trotting. Publication ... November 1983 "Teeline shorthand made simple". Teeline, the 20th century shorthand. It's easier to learn than any other system. Now available at $10-95. Heinemann Publishers (NZ) Ltd USSR Trade Display Centre. Festival of books from the USSR, 20-25 June 1983. 15-23 Sturdee St, Wellington. "Whina", [by] Michael King. A major biography of the most visible and controversial Maori leader of our times. Hodder & Stoughton [1983] 1984: "Maori artists of the South Pacific", [by] K Mataira. Nga puna waihanga; New Zealand Maori artists and writers [1984] "Ready to read" series. First published 1983; revised and reprinted 1984. School Publications Branch, Department of Education, Wellington 1984. Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 13.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 840 x 595 mm.

Date: 8 May 2000 - 08 Feb 2000

From: New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) oral history project

By: Gray, Alison Mary, 1943-; Mahy, Margaret May, 1936-2012

Reference: OHInt-0698-13

Description: Margaret Mahy talks about involvement with PEN, being President of the Christchurch branch in the 1980s before it became the Society of Authors. Discusses Public lending right; Literary fund; writing awards e g Montana etc; changes in New Zealand writing and publishing for children; London flat [Bloomsbury]; book festivals; GST on books; decline of National Library School Library Service and need for PEN to monitor what is happening in libraries. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Alison Gray Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012354 Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4179.

Date: 1995

By: Unilever New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-BOOK-AWARDS-1995-01

Description: Poster showing head and shoulder portrait photographs of authors and illustrators in the finals of the Children's Book Awards competition for 1995, including the name of the book for which they were nominated: Junior fiction: Jack Lasenby, Joy Cowley, Maurice Gee, Pauline Cartwright, Fleur Beale Senior fiction: William Taylor, Sherryl Jordan, Christine Johnston, James Norcliffe, Norman Bilbrough Non-fiction: Pat Quinn, Sandra Morris, Andrew Crowe, Betty brownlie Picture books: Lynley Dodd, Diana Noonan, Elizabeth Fuller, Chris Gaskin, Philip Temple, Alspeth Alix Batt, Lino Nelisi Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand Book Council in 2011.

Date: 2006-2014

By: Gecko Press Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PUBLISHING-Gecko

Description: Includes catalogues for the years: 2009, 2011/2012, 2014, 2917?, 2018? Also includes : 'Guji Guji' by Chih-Yan Chen. Postcard [ca2006] Envelope with Gecko logo 2007 Invitation card to Gecko's 5th birthday party, 84 Taranaki Street, Wellington, 14 July 2010 Paul Beavis illustration to 'Mrs Mo's monster'. Postcard [2014] Antje Damm illustration to "Waiting for Goliath" 2017. Postcard Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying below 180 mm.

Date: 2008-2009

Reference: Eph-B-BOOKSELLER-CB-2008/2009

Description: Ten fliers advertising book publications. Each flier has the emblem of the Children's Bookshop, Kilbirnie, Wellington. Publishers represented include Skylight.org, New Holland, Hardie Grant Egmont, Harper Collins, Longacre Press, Walker Books Australia. Includes a list of the finalists in the NZ Post Book Awards 2009. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 2005

By: New Zealand Book Council

Reference: Eph-D-LITERATURE-2005-03

Description: Poster showing panels of text and photographs of writer Margaret Mahy at various stages of her life, and photographs of some of the book covers produced for her publications. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on poster, 700 x 492 mm.

Date: 2020

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Ltd; Penguin Books (Firm : N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-JUNE-JULY-2020/3

Description: Comprises leaflets from Harper Collins ("Hot Titles") and Penguin ("Penguin Picks"), advertising books for children ("junior readers" and "senior readers"). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 6 pieces of ephemera. Provenance: Denis Fairfax obtained these leaflets from The Children's Bookshop, Kilbirnie, Wellington.

Date: 1915-1954

From: Dorothy and Kay Thomson: Collection relating to Howes, Blyth and Thomson family history

Reference: MS-Papers-12114-3

Description: Comprises letters to Edith Howes from friends and parents of readers of her books, and associated with her career as a writer of children's books. Includes several letters of condolence written on the death of her brother George Howes in 1946. Some letters have been annotated by Dorothy Thomson to identify the writers or the date. The writers include Edith's friend Lavinia Kelsey, her sister-in-law Ada Howes, 'Sister Scatterjoy' from the children's pages of the 'Press', and Rona Allen, daughter of Sir James Allen. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Hanwritten and typed letters

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-020

Description: Photographs relating to amusements, books and dance, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [1988]

From: National Library of New Zealand : Papers relating to the Dorothy Neal White collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8844-4

Description: Draft articles for 'School library review' written by Joan de Hamel, Barry Faville and Robyn Kahukiwa. The writers outline their careers as authors of children's books. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript, typescripts