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I was thinking about the best New Zealand book cover of 2025. Which book would I choose? There are tonnes of great covers this year, and in every year. But it was oddly easy in 2025. One cover kept popping into my mind's eye, and it was the cover I saw when I thought about the best: SICK. POWER. TRIP. Eight months ago on Bluesky, href="https://bsky.app/profile/thwupbooks.b...

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It's interesting that one of Aotearoa's biggest literary cause célèbres this year was about book covers. The href="https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/17/ockhams-dump-books-from-awards-over-ai-covers/" class="o-link--solid-faux-underline" data-analytics="[{"event":"bc.outboundLinkClick","payload":{"gtmCategory":&...

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Saturday

Dinosaurs, fossils, and authors... oh my!

Big Green was the guest of honour at the special DINOvember event at Tūranga, and had so much fun learning how to write a dino book with local authors Mary Duff and Carly Waddleton, digging for fossils with Canterbury Museum, and dancing along with Music with Michal! He even taught L’il Green some moves!

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What a roarsome week for the Library Dinos! They’ve been out and about this week checking out the dino-mite tech all around the city.

Long Weekend at the A & P Show

The Library Outreach Dinos couldn’t wait to head along to the A & P Show! When it wasn’t hailing and storming they enjoyed some stories outdoors, signing up new members, and playing with our OSMO ge...

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