MOPHEAD by Selina Tusitala Marsh, this week's Book of the Week, has just been named as the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. 
At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until one day, after Sam Hunt visits her school, Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be herself — to be WILD!

>>On being the first. 

>>Warrior poet. 

>>On being New Zealand Poet Laureate. 

>>How your difference makes a difference. 

>>On being a Pasifika role model. 

>>On being Afakasi. 

>>On the relationship between the tale and the teller. 

>>Five minutes with Selina Tusitala Marsh. 

>>Fast talking P.I.

>>The most memorable book launch. 

>>Is New Zealand 'the lucky country'?

>>Telling it to the Queen.  >>And after!

>>Books by Selina Tusitala Marsh. 

>>Mophead Tu: The Queen's poem is due for release in November, Order a copy now. 

>>Other category winners in the NZBACYA.