Hamilton Book Month 2018

Chartwell Library

Lynden Court, Hamilton

Saturday 4 August

11-12 noon

Free event

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3.2.1. BLAST OFF... ! Join us for storytime featuring children’s books by New Zealand authors during Hamilton

Book Month. Come and enjoy a hot coffee or hot chocolate on us. Illustrator Deborah Hinde will be reading a

story and talking about her typical work day. Join her in a drawing activity using thumb prints. 

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Deborah Hinde has illustrated over 70 books, fiction and nonfiction. Her first picture book, A Kiwi Night Before

Christmas (Scholastic NZ, 2003), is a New Zealand classic with a companion title scheduled for release later

this year. She has illustrated another 34 books including the award-winning Te Reo Singalong series and

more recently the best-selling children’s book for 2017, Moo and Moo and the Little Calf Too (Allen & Unwin,

2017). In 2018 Deborah received a Storylines Notable Book Award for illustrating The Spaghetti Giraffe (Flat Bed

Press, 2017). In 2016 Deborah published her first authored and illustrated book Hare (PictureBook Publishing)

and has another book scheduled for release in September 2018. Deborah lives and works from her

home-based studio in rural Waikato. Inspiration for her stories come from the hedgehogs and other animals

in her garden.