Several lucky members of the library team attended a 'Celebration of Reading' event at the National Library on 5 August.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was there to announce that an Aotearoa New Zealand Reading Ambassador role is to be established. This role will advocate for and promote the importance of reading in the lives of young New Zealanders, their whānau and communities, helping create a ‘nation of readers’.

Several young people from around New Zealand delivered powerful messages of what reading means to them and the doors that it has opened in their lives.

One of our library team, Raya Tietjens Hotter, had written and illustrated a picture book for Neve, the Prime Minister's daughter. The highlight of the event for us was seeing Raya present this gorgeous book to a delighted Jacinda.