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    Against the flow

    Aug 22, 2021 4 minutes
    by CLARE DE LORE
    photograph by CLARE DE LORE

    Colourful by name, nature, appearance and language, poet and writer Ben Brown (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti Paoa) is an inspired choice as New Zealand’s inaugural Reading Ambassador. With his former wife, illustrator Helen Taylor, Brown won the 2006 Best Picture Book in the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards for A Booming in the Night. He has written non-fiction and short stories for adults and children, as well as editing a book called How The F--- Did I Get Here, a result of his work with young offenders.

    He loves both writing and reading books, and it’s hard to imagine children failing to be captured by his enthusiasm and energy, and his sometimes unorthodox approach.

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