Susette Goldsmith reviews four fascinating books for older readers: think steampunk shenanigans, paranormal romance, celebrity secret...

Sarah Forster reviews current releases Harriet and the eye of the Bird, Bonjour Lucy Bee and The Invincibles: Power Up! She also reviews...

Board books including English and Te Reo Māori for basic concepts are being welcomed with open arms by young families all over New...

Each of these vibrant, colourful books comes from an independent publisher. Helen Vivienne Fletcher finds a lot to love about them. A...

The Young Adult finalists in the NZCYA Awards encompass a variety of approaches to fantasy, a touch of dystopia, political intrigue and...

Rachel Moore reviews five new New Zealand picture books, which cover everything from the beauty and brutality of nature, to how to cope...

Fantasy's a funny word for the genre of imaginative worlds, considering how many of the places created are the last place anyone would...

Carly Thomas reviews two non-fiction books for older kids that explore ideas of people and place, and a fun rhyming book for younger...

Lucy Black reviews five new picture books that explore ideas of people and place. Join Aroha, Flit, Polly, two boisterous boys and the...

Current picture book publishing in New Zealand is a real mixed bag. There are stories that are just familiar songs in disguise matched...

Writer Steph Matuku reviews two new books for teenagers. Tina Shaw's manuscript for Ursa won the Storylines Tessa Duder Award for YA...

ECE teacher Sara Croft reviews three books for younger readers, two that use humour to engage young readers, and a third which is a...

Jane Arthur reviews an enlightening new book celebrating eight New Zealand writers. Here We Are, Read Us: Women, Disability and Writing...

'What’s very clear is that the author is writing what she knows, that this place is in her bones.' Catherine Woulfe devours, reviews and...

Thalia Kehoe Rowden reviews three new mainly factual picture books: two historical stories told from the point of view of animals, and a...