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Available now in bookshops nationwide. This is an ideal book to leave around any home containing a book-lover, for idle moments while eating breakfast, while the kids are peacefully bickering about…

"This book has seen me add 20 more books that I’d never even heard of to my reading list. It expanded my understanding of the works of those authors I had read, and my awareness of those I might be interested in reading. And in a nice double-up effect, it made me aware of more brilliant books that are waiting out there for me to be transformed by."

[thebookthatmademe]

The Book That Made Me edited by Judith Ridge - Booknotes Unbound

Thirty two authors of children’s books have each contributed a piece about the book/s that encouraged them as children and made them want to read. Three contributors are Kiwis and the writer whose story I connect with best, is Mandy Hager writing about the book that inspired her – which was 1984. Hager summarises most …

From the New Zealand Book Council.