New Zealand books word search
Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Witi Ihimaera and a certain dog from Donaldson's Dairy. Twenty words from New Zealand writing, from the Booker winners to the bedtime classics.
- Baxter
- Booker
- Catton
- Hairy Maclary
- Hone Tuwhare
- Hulme
- Janet Frame
- Lynley Dodd
- Mahy
- Mansfield
- Novel
- Patricia Grace
- Plot
- Plumb
- Poetry
- Potiki
- Sargeson
- The Bone People
- The Luminaries
- Witi Ihimaera
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| I | H | H | A | I | R | Y | M | A | C | L | A | R | Y |
| T | O | B | R | G | P | L | O | T | S | L | O | F | N |
| I | N | J | A | N | E | T | F | R | A | M | E | R | L |
| I | E | P | O | E | T | R | Y | I | R | H | T | T | E |
| H | T | P | O | T | I | K | I | C | G | U | I | B | Y |
| I | U | C | M | A | N | S | F | I | E | L | D | O | D |
| M | W | A | T | N | A | Y | U | A | S | M | P | O | O |
| A | H | T | T | R | H | O | N | G | O | E | L | K | D |
| E | A | T | B | A | X | T | E | R | N | Y | U | E | D |
| R | R | O | M | S | N | H | O | A | E | O | M | R | E |
| A | E | N | I | U | O | T | T | C | O | L | B | F | Y |
| T | H | E | B | O | N | E | P | E | O | P | L | E | N |
| E | T | H | E | L | U | M | I | N | A | R | I | E | S |
Find these words
- Baxter
- Booker
- Catton
- Hairy Maclary
- Hone Tuwhare
- Hulme
- Janet Frame
- Lynley Dodd
- Mahy
- Mansfield
- Novel
- Patricia Grace
- Plot
- Plumb
- Poetry
- Potiki
- Sargeson
- The Bone People
- The Luminaries
- Witi Ihimaera
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About this word search
Katherine Mansfield, born in Wellington in 1888, wrote short stories that are read around the world. Janet Frame wrote novels and an autobiography that became the film An Angel at My Table. Keri Hulme's The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985, and Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries won it in 2013. Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, the author of Potiki, and the poet Hone Tuwhare gave Māori voices a central place. Maurice Gee wrote Plumb, Margaret Mahy wrote for every age, and Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary has been read aloud at countless bedtimes.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Patricia Grace, The Luminaries and The Bone People share the top spot with thirteen letters each. Mahy and Plot are the shortest at four, then Hulme, Novel and Plumb at five. Some writers go by surname only, like Mansfield, Baxter and Sargeson, and Hulme, Catton and Mahy join them on this board. The X appears only in Baxter. Hairy Maclary runs together as HAIRYMACLARY.
For a book club or a library display. Everyone chooses one author from the grid they have never read and reports back next month.
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