Monday, June 3, 2019

Samoan Language Week - reading


This week we have been reading books by:
Lino Nelisi



Lino Nelisi is a bilingual New Zealand children’s writer whose books celebrate New Zealand’s cultural diversity. Of Niuean Samoan heritage, Nelisi has worked as a primary teacher in Niue and in Auckland, and as an Auckland College of Education adviser on Pacific Islands education. She has produced more than 15 texts and her work is published in English, Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, Tokelauan, Cook Island Māori and Spanish. She has been shortlisted several times for the New Zealand Post Children’s Picture Book Award.  (NZ Book Council)






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