The Waikato Show

Get Ready, Get Thru and join in the fun with the emergency services display. We'll show you what you need to do to be prepared and what steps to take in order to survive if natural disaster comes too close to home.

Healthy Waikato features a Health and Wellness expo, as well as a healthy Waikato River expo. Jam packed with fun activities, seminars, this magical place will inspire you to get healthy inside and out!

The Waikato Music Expo will showcase not only the fabulous local talent, but also bring you all the information to crack into the music industry and make your own way to fame.

The Antique Fair exhibition come from far and wide to show you the historical pieces available. They are also running a valuation roadshow for you to bring your own antique artifacts along

other features include: Hamilton Library

Hamilton City Libraries will be at the New Waikato Show with a great range of books, DVDs, CDs, and magazines you can take home, but they will also have plenty of interactive activity available too.

You'll be able to download eBooks, stream music, search encyclopaedias, search databases, check your library account and place reservations.

As well as highlighting their vast range of services, there will be an exhibition of historic photographs and old brochures, posters and programmes from the old Waikato Winter Shows of the past, oral histories you can listen with residents’ memories of life in the Waikato, and a range of fascinating databases including Ancestry and Fundview as well as Kete, their community website.
There'll be an eBook reader on hand for visitors to explore and details of their eBook collection how to download more than 1500 titles, all for free.

You can follow Hamilton City Libraries on Facebook and Twitter too.

And Sharon Holt

Sharon Holt is a local Hamilton children's author. Many children have seen her educational books in the Ready to Read series.
The titles you might remember are "No Skipper!" and "Skipper's Happy Tail". You might have also read "The Amazing Maize Maze". Sharon was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards in 2007 with her book about how to write jokes. It's called "It's True... You can make your own jokes". Sharon has also written two books in Scholastic's "My Story..." series.

Sharon's books are usually published by publishers in New Zealand and Australia. However, this time Sharon has published her two new books with the help of a friend. So now she's not only an author, she's a marketer and book seller! Sharon's latest books are in the Maori language. They are picture song books with CDs that help children, teachers and parents to learn sentences in Maori. Book 1 is called "Maranga Mai!". It's about waking up on the farm and includes lots of animal noises. Book 2 is called "Kei te Peke Ahau". It's about actions like jumping, running, flying and hiding. Sharon plans to write more books in the series, which is called Te Reo Singalong.

The illustrator Sharon's Te Reo Singalong books is Deborah Hinde, who has illustrated many New Zealand picture books including "Cow Power" and "A Kiwi Night Before Christmas". The musicians on the CDs are Graeme Stewart and Stacy Walker. Everyone involved in creating the books lives in the Waikato. Each book features a glossary, English translation, guitar chords and a list of 10 activities. You can find out more about this new series at the website: http://tereosingalong.co.nz.