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Tumeke
Paperback Edition: 1
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
Plans for the Newtoun community's Waitangi Day celebrations are well under way. The Tape Orchestra's practising like mad. Monty and Mr Steve Vibrant are designing a poster. Rishi's trying to land Lil Yacht Shifty and Ms Ropata's juggling it all because everyone wants in. There'll be curry and cake, kapa haka, halal sausages, foam blasters, the Naenae dirtman, and kiss-the-goat if Constable Rutene can manage to chase one down. In the meantime, Dreadflocks considering a blog, Brionys Mums being a helicopter, and everyone's eating a lot of lolly cake.
In the boundary-riding tradition of the Annual project, Annual Ink's latest title #Tumeke! brings you the lives, loves and larrikin spirit of an inner-city neighbourhood. The story is told through texts, Instagram posts, emails, fliers, committee minutes, posters, diary entries, blog posts, chatrooms, school homework, raps and the reliably bonkers community noticeboard. Stuffed with big personalities, surprising friendships and a little intrigue, this multimedia story brims with creativity and comedy, and everyday heartaches, too. Debut novelist Michael Petherick juggles a large cast and multiple story threads with panache, giving us a window on a vivid, warm-hearted community.
A narrative but not quite as we know it for middle readers and anyone who loves to connect.
Featured in the 14 October 2019 New Zealand newsletter.
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Publisher : Annual Ink
Publication date : 2019-10-10
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, Children's & Young Adult, NZ Children's / Young Adult, Ages Teen, NZ General Fiction (Children's / Young Adult)