Annual

Fiction, comics, poems, essays, art, satire, and things to do! This is a book for intrepid readers to dip into, pore over, return to again and again. —Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris ANNUAL features new work from some of New Zealand's best writers and illustrators. Look for Bernard Beckett, Fifi Colston, Gavin Bishop, Dylan Horrocks, Barbara Else, Samuel Scott, Coco Solid, Jenny Bornholdt, Kieran Rynhart, Whiti Hereaka, Ben Brown, Sharon Murdoch, Jonathan King, and more. Annual features a dictionary of crazy words that come in handy on car trips, a sophisticated "spot the similarity", a found poem from school newsletters, a maths-nerd's memoir full of tricky logic puzzles, comics that embrace other worlds, a very unlucky zebra, and top-class fiction that spans Christchurch Botanic Gardens in the 19th century, the loss of a brother, a Kiwi beach holiday, and a Fontanian boarding school. This is a book for readers who are hungry for sophisticated, wide-ranging, and challenging content. It aims to revitalize the reading experience for this age group and create lifetime readers.