"Wot Knot You Got?: Mophead's Guide to Life" - Selina Tusitala Marsh Launch

Event Details:

Date: Friday 1st December

Location: Building 201 Atrium - 201-475, University of Auckland City Campus, 10 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD, 1010

Time: 6pm – 8.30pm

Join us for speeches, drinks and food as we celebrate the launch of this book.

About the Book:

With her trademark visual wit, our buddy Mophead unravels the knots that keep us up at night.

‘What do you do if nothing is right – not at home, at school, anywhere?’

‘What if people don’t like me?’

‘What if your own ideas stink?’

‘How do I hug my dad?’

One morning, Selina wakes up with a twisting, tangling, knotty problem. It takes over everyone and everything – work, kids, life, the lot. How can she get out of a knot this tight?

Then she remembers: kids write to her all the time – they ask some of life’s toughest questions. Can she help them through their knots? And through helping them, can she find a way out of her own?

In this self-help give-it-a-go moppy-mayhem-filled workbook-that’s-all-about-play, join Selina as she scribbles and draws and writes her way out of the darkness – and invites you to take out a pen.

A book for readers from eight to eighty and for anyone in a dark place, no matter what knot you’ve got.

www.mophead.co.nz

About the Author:

Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh (ONZM, FRSNZ) is a former Commonwealth Poet, New Zealand Poet Laureate and acclaimed performer and author. She was the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland and is now a Professor of English specialising in Pasifika literature. Her first collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. Her debut children’s book and memoir, Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference, was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and was followed by the bestselling Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem. Her third book in her award-winning Mophead series, Wot Knot You Got? Mophead’s Guide to Life is out this November. In this one-of-a-kind, hands-on playbook, she chooses 11 real-life questions, identifies its knotty nature, and helps her readers untangle themselves with creative writing exercises.