Ever since I got sniggers at my first relieving job in New Zealand as I left the school I have had an interest in the work of David Hill . It appears to me that he is quite a prolific writer. Currently, I am working my way through "The Sleeper Wakes". Many of his works touch on many of NZs key moments in history or the potential disasters that lie beneath this fair and beautiful land. Whether it is one or the other I have to say that he does provide something of a bridge between the two world of Junior fiction and ’study’ literature. I was wondering, if anyone knows whether the novels of this author would be available in one huge, (updated covers) set. Something for me to get my boy that will stand the test of time – I have a decade to locate it so no rush.
In short, I guess, I’m sharing that these novels are well worth a read. Well worth a study. The trick is to do this in such a way as to ’switch the kids onto literature’.
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
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David Hill’s visit
David Hill is a wonderfully natural story-teller. He has just finished a series of visits to schools in the Hawkes Bay, finishing here at Hastings Intermediate .
I would love to tell you of the great tales he told, but I really couldn’t do them justice. He first tried writing when he was 16 or 17, trying to impress a girl. Then he leaves it alone for a decade until he finds some old notes he made…. Now 23 chapter books later and still writing, in fact we were honoured with the first public reading of his, yet to be published, next book.
If you ever get the opportunity to invite David Hill to your school, take it. He is well worth listening to.
