Mal Peet Heads North

SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau invite you to afternoon tea and a few laughs with a most entertaining and engaging presentation by  Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham

2.00pm Saturday 22 June 

At Kerikeri High School Library

Mal Peet, Internationally celebrated UK author. He has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction, and his work has been translated into many languages. His young adult novels include Keeper (2003), Tamar (2005), The Penalty (2006),Exposure (2008) and Life: an Exploded Diagram (2011).

With his wife, Elspeth Graham, Mal writes picture books for younger readers. Their Cloud Tea Monkeys (2010, illustrated by Juan Wijngaard) was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK and won an Aesop Award in the USA, and the second book in this series, Mysterious Traveller, illustrated by P J Lynch, has just been launched.

All welcome – teachers, students, librarians, parents…

Free for Students, SLANZA members and their schools, $10.00 for non-members.

Programme :

2.00pm – Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham

3.00pm – Afternoon tea, book signing and informal chat

3.30pm – SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau AGM

Please pass this information on to anyone you think would be interested, and RSVP to jeannie.skinner@dia.govt.nz with the number of people who will be attending, thank you.

SLANZA events are kindly sponsored by Book Protection Products.