New Zealand schools have been back for a month now. How's your knowledge of fictional schools, teachers and classrooms in Aotearoa...

Colleen Shipley has been a librarian almost all her working life, but it wasn’t until she returned to work after having children that she...

'From where I sleep I can see the book on my bookshelf. I have read it so many times it has fallen apart, and now exists as an inelegant...

Hearing the wonderful news that six more towns are going to be Refugee Resettlement centres, we got thinking about what books might...

Do you recognise the name Avis Acres? Giselle Clarkson fills us in on the importance of this early figure in New Zealand children's...

In this new book, psychologist Gwendoline Smith (AKA Doctor Know) teaches teens about what's going on in their minds and how to get their...

Ricky’s family buy a mansion in a trendy suburb, with panoramic views of the city. Too good to be true… Yep, a real bargain. But this...

From Washington D.C, comes Leila, a young woman in search of family, a place to belong. Instead she finds her destiny and it threatens to...

Rafferty is an orphan, raised by monks. Misfortune strikes and he is outcast, and must fend for himself. He uses his cunning and charm to...

When her family moves suburbs, Laura discovers an old abandoned house on her street. It seems like the perfect hideout, but something –...

Here's an extract from a new New Zealand Christmas picture book, The Lonely Little Tree by Moya Kirby and illustrated by Terri Rose...

Angela Keoghan kicked off her international children’s book career by visiting Bologna Book Fair in 2015, and she has been going there...

Theresa Kewish is the librarian for two high-decile rural schools in the Waikato: Tamahere Model Country School for 22 hours a week, and...

As we near the end of 2018, our cool and clever illustrator, Giselle Clarkson, reaches Peak Adorkable. Here, she teaches us about some...

Māori language academic Vini Olsen-Reeder wants Māori-speaking kids and adults to be able to read books - lots of them - in te reo Māori....