As part of our coverage for this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked illustrator and major book-lover Giselle...

Children's book author and designer Vasanti Unka reckons that we could do better with our use of the colours from our multicultural...

As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we've asked the publishers of the non-fiction...

This year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults winners will be announced on 8 August. Before that, we thought we'd test your...

We're pleased to present an excerpt from The Mapmakers' Race (Gecko Press), a new novel by Eirlys Hunter and illustrated by Kirsten...

Kirsten Slade is the illustrator of the new kids' novel by Eirlys Hunter, The Mapmakers' Race (Gecko Press). Here she tells us – in words...

Whāngārei specialist children's librarian Meredith Wightman gives us a peek into her notebook today, and gives us a list of picture books...

As World Cup Fever sweeps, well, some of the nation, how well do you know your Aotearoa sporty books? Test yourself, share with a friend,...

Marama Keyte is the school librarian at Kamo Primary School in Whangarei. She has been a school librarian for five years, after many...

Here's a Sampling with a difference: the book doesn't exist (yet)! Only Freaks Turn Things Into Bones by Steff Green and illustrated by...

As part of our finalist coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we have some exclusive insights into the...

Disability consultant, activist and blogger Robyn Hunt suggests 21 books, from picture books to YA, that illuminate experiences of...

For World Refugee Day, former refugee Nida Fiazi writes about her life and how books have intersected with it, and includes her...

Bonnie Etherington, author of the multi-award-nominated novel The Earth Cries Out, reminisces about the stories and books from her...

Craig Phillips describes a typical day in the life of an internationally published, multi award-winning, homeschooling illustrator of...