Children's stories

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: [ca 1996]

By: Barltrop, Alec, active 1963-1966

Reference: MS-Papers-5767

Description: Unpublished children's story Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (Photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Rona Bailey, 1997

Date: 1939 - 1945

By: Rothe, Hans, active 1940; Jennings, Margaret, active 1990s

Reference: E-595

Description: Five pages each containing a verse of text, accompanied by an illustration. The text tells a story of a boy who goes to pick an apple for his girl friend, and succeeds despite being frightened by a bear. He is rewarded with a kiss. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on pages of sketchbook, buckram bound, 85 x 85 mm. Provenance: The book was handmade by a German "interned alien" on Somes Island, Wellington, New Zealand, during the Second World War. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) had a permit to visit the island and help the internees and their dependants, and were able to bring some of the crafts they made, and sell them at a stall on their behalf (See note at AT 10/14, 24 September 2001 - copy with sketchbook). Processing information: Transferred from the Dorothy Neal White Collection in 2001.

Date: 1894-1911, 1927-1941, 2000

By: Thornton, Mary, active 2000s

Reference: MS-Group-1315

Description: Holograph and typescript drafts of Maclennan's poetry, stories and other writings. Also, cuttings from newspapers and journals of his poetry and stories, together with printed reviews of his work `Neptune's toil', an obituary by Jessie McKay and other clippings relating to Maclennan's life. Included are photocopies of two letters from C R H Taylor to Stewart Maclennan (1940, 1941), and a copy of Mary Thornton's work 'Legacy of a colonial storyteller and poet; a selection of published and unpublished works by John Maclennan, 1870-1911'. Source of title - Supplied by Library Papers collected and arranged by Mary Thornton, MacLennan's granddaughter. She also typed in 2000 a selection of his published and unpublished work under the title of `Legacy of a colonial storyteller and poet'. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 5 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts, printed matter.

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-587-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Jack Elder tries to explain his innocence in awarding a travel grant to a school cultural group containing colleagues' daughters. NZ First waken from political death in time to campaign for the 1999 General election. A green lipped muscle reads scary stories from the book 'Tales from the Lab' to his children. Refers to research into cancer cures. Infant looks suspiciously at mother's nipple and opts for the scrambled egg if there's any chance of the milk having been genetically modified or irradiated. NZ and Australian Ministers of Health have declared war on depression. A drepressed man says over the breakfast table, when politicians start slashing their wrist in large numbers, then he'll cheer up. Over a beer two men discuss All Black coach, John Hart's performance. Police warn the public of an IBM fugitive. Refers to the IBM scoop of public money for a Police computer main-frame that never eventuated. Politicians avoid the responsibility of the INCIS Police computer fiasco. Media woman interviews state minister on the tit for tat shooting down of Indian and Pakistan military planes. She suggests there may be a risk of it leading to nuclear war. The minister says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley battle it out in the preferred Prime Minister Polls. Shows the Statue of Liberty with a gun to her head. The caption says, 'tighten up the gun laws America, or the lady gets it...' Boris Yeltsin appoints his 5th Prime Minister in 17 months. The new Prime Minister looks distincly uneasy as his chair sits on a trap-door. Shows and elephant (IBM) being sting by a bee (Bill Birch). Refers to the Police INCIS computer fiasco. Earthquake rocks Turkey, they call for help. Academics discuss the government's five-step knowledge-based economy plan to restore NZ's stand of living. One says, 'Sounds fabulous, except that you can't take two steps across an abyss...' New Zealand Black Caps beat the English cricket team. World athletics is shackled by the weight of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. Mike Moore leaves government politics with a sense of freedom at last. Possible outcome of mixing human genes into cows. Petrol Companies hold motorists to ransom with higher petrol prices. The shadow of violence hangs over voting in East Timor. Derek Quigley steers the select committee looking into decommissioning NZ's air-strike capability. National are alarmed as they thought Quigley was on their side. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [ca 1869]-1997

By: Arnold, Rollo Davis, 1926-1998

Reference: 99-257

Description: Note books containing research notes from various sources including archives, manuscripts, newspapers, serials and monographs compiled in the course of research for `The Farthest promised land', `New Zealand's burning', `Settler Kaponga' and articles and talks on Australia-New Zealand relations and migration, ca 1900-1910. These note books are accompanied by card indexes providing subject access to their contents; drafts, correspondence and working papers relating to the above monographs and articles; papers relating to children's literature including drafts of published and unpublished children's novels by Arnold including `Bracken block' and `The Freedom of Ariki'; papers relating to education, in particular teachers in the Wellington Education Board district in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Other Titles - The farthest promised land Other Titles - New Zealand's burning Other Titles - Settler Kaponga Other Titles - Bracken block Other Titles - The Freedom of Ariki Rollo Davis Arnold was an educationalist and historian Quantity: 27 box(es). 9 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Betty Arnold, Wellington, 1999

Date: 1979

By: Ffitch, Ruth, active 1979

Reference: MSX-7076

Description: Letter from Martin Pharazyn to Ruth Ffitch accompanying a copy of Mary Pharazyn's `The Punake book for Daisy' (n36 of 200) of recollections of a Simla Crescent childhood Source of title - Transcribed from item and supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s) (one volume in case folder with letter). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter Includes illustrations by Mary Pharazyn

Date: 1864 - 1873

From: [The George Henry Wood collection of prints]

By: Hughes, Arthur, 1832-1915; Dalziel Brothers (Firm)

Reference: A-411-060/092

Description: Images illustrating contemporary Victorian fiction, moral and romantic tales. Engravers include Dalziel. Quantity: 33 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white prints mounted on sheets, sizes approximately 335 x 223 mm

Date: 1996

By: Barltrop, Alec, active 1963-1966

Reference: MS-Papers-6021

Description: Parts 1 and 2 of `Wilma, Waimate's wonderful wallaby', by Barltrop Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also previous collection at MS-Papers-5767 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with line drawings (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Rona Bailey, Nov 1996 Line drawings to story

Date: 1951, 1997-1999, (undated)

From: Perry family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11371

Description: Folder comprises an original children's story (typescript) by Charles Stuart Perry for his daughter Jane. Story entitled "Sammy and the shag - A holiday in the Sounds" (1951). Also a poem by T Lindsay Buick, copied by Alexander Lawson, entitled "The green is closed" (undated). Two brief notes (1997, 1999) addressed to Jane Perry from Douglas Lilburn in relation to gardening. Lilburn and Perry were neighbours. One of the notes is on the reverse of a photograph of Ascot Street taken by the photographer John Cook. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript and photograph

Date: 02 Oct 1966

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/132

Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Scripts at MS-Papers-1239, folder 48 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0136 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 14 Minutes Duration.

Date: 13 Nov 1966

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/137

Description: Three stories written by the same family in Resolution Bay, Marlborough Sounds - firstly we hear from Murray Irwin aged 10 with 'Impetuosity', telling use how he learned to ride a cow, followed by his sister Robyn (12) with `I flew 15 feet' describing her experience when blown out to sea by a strong wind and how she remembered to kick off her gum boots, and finally their mother Mrs Joan Irwin in `Billy the wild piglet' recalls the problems when a hunter arrived at the door with a wild piglet, whose mother he had shot, and asked the family to take care of it.. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Interviewer(s) - Jane Shalcrass, reader Interviewer(s) - Merrin Shepherd, reader Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Scripts at Ms-Papers-1239, folder 50 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0141 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 12 Minutes Duration.

Date: 4 July 1993 - 04 Jul 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Carmine, Dorothy Mary, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-0067/042

Description: Dorothy Mary Carmine (nee Baxter) born Waihi on the day World War II ended and recalls mother's vivid memories of that historical day. Describes happy childhood and getting to school on the cream truck. Recalls: studies at Auckland University; marriage; teaching experience at Papatoetoe High School and Rangiototo College before returning to Waihi 1980. Talks about attitude to husbands who stayed at home to look after family (house husband). Talks about involvement with Community Health Advisory Group to save health services in Waihi. Backgrounds her journey to writing, starting as a child writing for the Boys' and Girls' column on the back page of the Herald and in later years having two children's books published - Daniel's Dinosaurs and Asleep on the Mat. Reference to Martin Baynton from Whangamata who did illustrations. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005853A; OHV-0268D Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1260.

Date: 1962

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-132

Description: Two pages torn from a New South Wales School Magazine with part of a fairy story illustrated by a goose-girl sitting among mountains, a toad in her hand, and the girl pursued by a monster Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 244 x 180 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: 1978-1992

By: Kidsarus 2 Inc; Neale, Pauline Reynolds, active 1981-2002

Reference: ATL-Group-00377

Description: Contains correspondence, clippings, papers and other material relating to various of the Kisdarus 2 Inc projects and activities. Contains correspondence, drafts, dummies, copies of publishing agreements and other miscellaneous papers relating to the publishing of `The fudge that jumped out of the bath and ran away'. Contains Kidsarus 2 Inc correspondence, flyers, invitations and clippings about the group or books they published, 1982-1986, correspondence, reviews, royalty statements and publishing agreement relating to Kimi and the Watermelon/Ko Kimi me Tana Mereni, 1983-1984 and some papers relating to the New Zealand Children's Books of the Year awards, 1985. Title supplied by Library. See also 84-072B and 84-072C. Kidsarus 2 Inc formed out of the original Kidsarus Collective which was a writing group motived to publish non-sexist and non-racist children's books. Quantity: 17 folder(s). 6 colour original transparency/ies. 0.17 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs, printed matter Provenance: Pauline Neale was a co-ordinator of Kidsarus 2 Inc. Processing information: Collection formed in February gathering together previously separate collections - MS-Papers-4607, MS-Papers-4628, MS-Papers-5114, MS-Papers-7318 and PAColl-3003 - to form one collection.

Date: 195?

From: Taylor, Heather Marie, active 1991-2014: Girls' Brigade New Zealand collection

By: Earle, Dora -1957

Reference: MS-Papers-12369-073

Description: Copy of 'The Story of Katie Cadet' written by Dora Earle and published by the Girls' Life Brigade Incorporated New Zealand circa 1950s. Annotation inside front cover reads "Lt G. Barker". Accompanying notes (probably written by Heather Taylor) give the name Gwenneth Barker along with an address and phone number and read "Donated by Gwen Barker Auckland", and "Include book on "Katie Cadet" by Dora Earle. Mine to keep." Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing one volume. Physical Description: Printed matter and manuscript

Date: 1956

From: Taylor, Heather Marie, active 1991-2014: Girls' Brigade New Zealand collection

By: Earle, Dora -1957

Reference: MS-Papers-12369-069

Description: Copy of story 'Marjorie's Mouse. A story for G.L.B. Cadets' by Dora Earle (Formerly Commissioner Auckland Division of the G.L.B.). Published by The Pelorus Press limited, Auckland. Sticker inside front cover records that the booklet belonged to "Mr and Mrs G. S. Mills" of Hamilton. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing one volume. Physical Description: Printed matter.

Date: 1917, 1986-1987

By: Williams, Kathleen Sheila, 1939-

Reference: MS-Papers-6138

Description: Correspondence relates mainly to Wall's use of the `New Zealand National Bibliography', which Williams helped to compile, as part of his project to identify Christ's College Old Boys. Also includes two letters from Christ's College acknowledging receipt of two donations for the John Harris Memorial Collection; list of the books held by the John Harris Memorial Collection as at 1 Jan 1987 and three manuscript and one typescript copy of a juvenile story written jointly by Christ's College pupils, James Courage and John Hamilton in August 1917. Arnold Wall originated a project to identify books written by Old Boys of Christ's College and to deposit as many of these books as possible in the John Harris Memorial Collection of books in the school's library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-161-1

Description: Cartoon entitled `Taking a hint' shows a woman reading a story to her young neice, Sylvie. The caption below reads: Aunt Flora (concluding the story of the naughty little girl), " - and soaked all her nice new Sunday clothes from head to foot." (Moral) "But Sylvie's a good little girl. She never got into her bath with all her Sunday clothes on." Sylvie (thoughtfully), "No-o, I never did - but I will now!" Engraver's initials - D.A. [?] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm