ABOUT THE FIRST ANNUAL

PUBLISHED IN PARTNERSHIP WITHE GECKO PRESS 2016

What’s in an annual? Everything. What’s in our Annual?

A song, a map, animals under attack
Stories, puzzles, a plastic minaret
Poems, rhymes, a robot who longs to cry
And one unlucky zebra.

Annual contains all-new material from some of New Zealand’s best writers and illustrators. There are also new names you won’t recognise.

We think of this book as intrepid. It’s fearless and adventurous. There’s something for every kind of reader, in any kind of mood.

Maybe your grandparents found something similar in their Christmas stocking. Ask them about it.

Like Christmas, Annual will be annual. The golden age has returned.

REVIEWS

“Sometimes it feels like it was made in crazy town – but in a good way!”
– Daniel Lovewell (9) and Gemma Lovewell (11)

“What a feast! The great-grandchildren loved it!” – Joy Cowley

The Reader: 10 reason to pick up Annual, edited by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris

Judging a book by its cover: Our favourites from the 2017 PANZ Book Design Awards finalists – ANNUAL

LISTEN to Kim Hill talk to Wellington writer Kate De Goldi, whose most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle won the junior fiction category at the 2016 Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and Susan Paris, who has written more than forty chapter books for the educational market, and has edited the School Journal for ten years. Together, they are editors of Annual, a miscellany of commissioned New Zealand writing for children aged nine to twelve.

Children's Book Review with John McIntyre LISTEN

New Zealand Books: Quality assured, Guy Somerset

25 Reviews.com – ANNUAL