Hard New Zealand books word search
Maurice Gee, Albert Wendt, Fleur Adcock and Owls Do Cry join the Booker winners and Hairy Maclary. Twenty-eight writers and books in an eighteen by eighteen grid, hidden in all eight directions. For readers who know their way around a bookshop.
- Albert Wendt
- Allen Curnow
- Baxter
- Booker
- Eleanor Catton
- Fleur Adcock
- Hairy Maclary
- Hone Tuwhare
- Hulme
- Janet Frame
- Joy Cowley
- Lloyd Jones
- Lynley Dodd
- Mansfield
- Margaret Mahy
- Maurice Gee
- Mister Pip
- Owls Do Cry
- Patricia Grace
- Plumb
- Poem
- Potiki
- Sargeson
- The Bone People
- The Haunting
- The Luminaries
- The Whale Rider
- Witi Ihimaera
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Name
| S | Y | W | T | M | N | M | E | O | P | D | H | R | F | G | E | T | N |
| R | R | O | D | D | O | D | Y | E | L | N | Y | L | S | H | R | F | S |
| T | C | N | N | I | T | H | E | B | O | N | E | P | E | O | P | L | E |
| S | O | R | E | I | N | O | T | T | A | C | R | O | N | A | E | L | E |
| L | D | U | W | E | F | Y | O | Y | L | L | B | M | U | L | P | L | O |
| Y | S | C | T | R | A | E | D | H | C | T | P | E | H | A | C | O | R |
| R | L | N | R | A | E | L | C | A | M | K | O | I | T | R | H | Y | E |
| A | W | E | E | H | M | W | B | M | A | C | T | R | H | E | U | D | D |
| L | O | L | B | W | A | O | H | T | U | O | I | P | E | A | L | J | I |
| C | B | L | L | U | R | C | S | E | R | C | K | P | H | M | M | O | R |
| A | O | A | A | T | F | Y | A | R | I | D | I | I | A | I | E | N | E |
| M | O | A | N | E | T | O | R | A | C | A | U | P | U | H | R | E | L |
| Y | K | S | B | N | E | J | G | G | E | R | P | R | N | I | I | S | A |
| R | E | T | A | O | N | R | E | R | G | U | N | E | T | I | C | X | H |
| I | R | A | X | H | A | K | S | A | E | E | M | T | I | T | M | T | W |
| A | O | I | T | C | J | X | O | M | E | L | H | S | N | I | A | H | E |
| H | D | L | E | I | F | S | N | A | M | F | N | I | G | W | N | F | H |
| E | W | N | R | R | S | E | I | R | A | N | I | M | U | L | E | H | T |
Find these words
- Albert Wendt
- Allen Curnow
- Baxter
- Booker
- Eleanor Catton
- Fleur Adcock
- Hairy Maclary
- Hone Tuwhare
- Hulme
- Janet Frame
- Joy Cowley
- Lloyd Jones
- Lynley Dodd
- Mansfield
- Margaret Mahy
- Maurice Gee
- Mister Pip
- Owls Do Cry
- Patricia Grace
- Plumb
- Poem
- Potiki
- Sargeson
- The Bone People
- The Haunting
- The Luminaries
- The Whale Rider
- Witi Ihimaera
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About this word search
Janet Frame's first novel, Owls Do Cry, came out in 1957. Margaret Mahy won the Carnegie Medal for The Haunting in 1982, Maurice Gee wrote Plumb, and Patricia Grace wrote Potiki. Albert Wendt brought Samoan life into New Zealand writing, Fleur Adcock and Allen Curnow are among the country's best-known poets, Lloyd Jones wrote Mister Pip, and Witi Ihimaera wrote The Whale Rider.
Eighteen by eighteen, in all eight directions. Five entries share the top spot at thirteen letters: Patricia Grace, Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries, The Bone People and The Whale Rider. Three of those begin with THE, so do not be fooled by a stray one. Poem is the shortest at four letters, Plumb and Hulme have five, and Potiki, Baxter and Booker six. The X is only in Baxter, and the J turns up in Janet Frame, Lloyd Jones and Joy Cowley.
For an English class or a reading group: sort the found words into novelists, poets and children's writers, then argue about the ones that fit more than one box.
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