New Zealand's school librarians are passionate, engaged professionals who know how to get students of all ages and reading levels into...

Earlier this month, we treated you to an excerpt from Gareth Ward's award-winning debut steampunk adventure novel, The Traitor and the...

As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the Elsie Locke Award for Non-fiction...

Australian author Zana Fraillon is an observer of the unseen: ‘As an author, I am drawn to the absences and the silences in our world.’...

David Riley is a Reading Warrior. The biographical niche-cramming South Auckland teacher-turned-author’s mission: to get books into the...

Cat Chapman is an Auckland freelance illustrator, having discovered her skills whilst doing a course in picture-book illustration with...

As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five finalists of the Russell Clark...

Kitty Brown and Kirsten Parkinson (both Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe) are two wahine who've done everything right when it comes to...

Holly Walker is a parent, activist, reviewer and former Green MP, whose first book, The Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics and...

Writing children’s books may seem romantic at remove, but — as with many things — it’s less glossy up close. As Kiwi writers Juliet Jacka...

Sally Rippin is one of the Big Names in Australian children's books. Christchurch librarian Zac McCallum interviewed her to celebrate the...

Lily Max author Jane Bloomfield caught up with UK author/illustrator Lauren Child during the recent Auckland Writers Festival. We...

Political cartoonist, comic artist, illustrator, writer, dad: Toby Morris (aka The Pencilsword) describes how cool it is to watch his...

British writer Frances Hardinge is living proof that books for kids can be as good as books for adults: her last YA novel, The Lie Tree,...

Zeustian Logic is Kiwi illustrator Sabrina Malcolm's first YA novel. She started it during a YA Writing Workshop in 2013 at Victoria...