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Not every book finds it audience right away, and those that take some time rarely get recognized by annual best book awards. New Zealand’s Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book addresses such oversights. Given by the Storylines Trust annually in memory of the late children’s author Gaelyn Gordon (1939-1997), it acknowledges a picture book or novel that did not win an award at the time of publication but has since become a firm favorite with children and adults.
The 2008 winners are New Zealand author Dorothy Butler and illustrator Elizabeth Fuller for their classic picture book My Brown Bear Barney, published by Reed Methuen in 1988. It was followed by two sequels, My Brown Bear Barney at School (1994) and My Brown Bear Barney at the Party (2001). Dorothy Butler, a veteran author and children’s book advocate for over 40 years, wrote the internationally acclaimed Babies Need Books and Cushla and Her Books. Elizabeth Fuller, well-known illustrator of Joy Cowley’s international best-selling Mrs Wishy-Washy series, also illustrated many “school reader” titles.
The award will be presented March 29, 2008 in Aukland at the Storylines annual Margaret Mahy Day, along with the Mahy Award.
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By Anatoly Liberman
Bishop John Wilkins (1614-1672), a renowned man who regularly preached before the king himself, had multifarious sensible ideas, as one can judge by reading his works. A discovery of a new world, or, A discourse tending to prove that ‘tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon: with a discourse concerning the probability of a passage thither… (we, postmodernists, love “discourse,” don’t we?) and Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance (this is what I do every Wednesday with the help of this blog). However, our readers are probably familiar only with his treatise Of the principles and duties of natural religion. Bishop Wilkins believed that English spelling is an appendix to the curse of Babel, and many wise and learned people shared his opinion. The very spelling shewing proves him right. (Shew survived the 19th century. Among the famous modern writers G. B. Shaw never wrote show. The reason for this strange spelling will be explained at some other time). (more…)
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