Library Week 2008
It’s New Zealand’s Library Week from 18 - 24 August 2008, celebrating everything that’s great about our libraries up and down the country. Library Week is coordinated by LIANZA, the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa.
Library Week 2008 - What’s Your Story? Nou te kōrero
Our story for this year’s “NZ’s Biggest Storytime” is Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig by Diana Neild and illustrated by Philip Webb. The Library Week Committee is very excited about this New Zealand title published in April this year by Scholastic NZ.
Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig was a long sort of name for a short sort of pig. When Piggity-Wiggity complains to his dad about the length of his name, Dad explains that he and his wife felt that their large family of four boys and four girls was missing something. When Piggity-Wiggity came along, they were so delighted that they wanted to give him an extra-special, musical, heroic sort of name. Piggity-Wiggity goes to sleep well satisfied with the explanation for his extraordinary name. Piggity-Wiggity is a wonderful read-aloud rhyme and rhythm story that trips off the tongue with fun language and sophisticated vocabulary. There is already a second Piggity-Wiggity title in production.
The following libraries will be particpating in NZ’s Biggest Storytime
Wednesday 20 August at 10:30am.
