Every two weeks we compile, for your browsing pleasure, cool children's book happenings (and peripherally related news) from around...

Never be stuck for something to do! Keep your hands and brain busy with glue, tape and scissors – and have crafty fun with Fifi! Would...

Playwright and Victoria University Writer-in-Residence Victor Rodger describes the twisted humour and terrifying morality of his...

John McIntyre from The Children’s Bookshop in Wellington is a top children’s bookseller. He's here once a month to answer your...

Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust continues to play a significant part in boosting the children's literature culture here...

There's a book for every reader, and a time for every book. Mandy Hager explains why sometimes Great Literature isn't what we need. In...

UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin were offered an opportunity they couldn't ignore: to bid to have a stand at the Bologna Children's...

Author Melinda Szymanik considers war books for children, how they create deeper empathy, and tells us what writers balance as they write...

Every two weeks we compile, for your browsing pleasure, cool children's book happenings (and peripherally related news) from around...

An excerpt from David Hill's Flight Path, a YA novel about 18-year-old Jack who wanted to escape boring little New Zealand – but soon...

Storylines Children’s Literature Foundation has given awards for local children’s literature since 2000, named for some of our most...

School principal Fraser Smith writes about how his debut children's novel Awatea's Treasure went from idea to manuscript to published...

In which our illustrator attempts to preserve her childhood innocence by living in denial for a decade. GISELLE CLARKSON Giselle Clarkson...

Nina Powles revisits her childhood obsession with The Saddle Club series and finds their appeal, though flawed, remains. There was one...

One of the first things we did when considering The Sapling was sit down and think: now, what can we offer that nobody else can? There...