Book Awards: the picture book finalists
For the final part of our finalist coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we have quite the treat for you:...
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Quiz: first lines of classic Kiwi kids' novels
How well do you know classic New Zealand children's novels? Do you think you could recognise them from their first sentences? Have a go!...
Book Awards: the junior fiction finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five shortlisted authors of the Esther...
Book Awards: the Young Adult fiction finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we've asked the publishers of the YA finalists to...
Book Awards: Te Kura Pounamu finalists
Kristin Smith reviews the five Te Kura Pounamu finalists in this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. He kōrero Māori...
Three Kiwi series for independent readers
Rachel Moore reviews three world-class Kiwi series for readers from around the age of seven: Miniwings by Sally Sutton, Flying Furballs...
Quiz: a 7-question quiz to celebrate Matariki
It's really cool that each year more and more local publishers are putting out children's books in celebration of Matariki. We've put...
Four very different NZ picture books
Mark Broatch reviews four recent picture books by New Zealand authors and illustrators – Inspector Brunswick: The Case of the Missing...
Quiz: the faces of New Zealand picture books
You know their words, you know their pictures ... but do you know their faces? Here are ten Kiwi picture book creators - how many do you...
The Whakapapa of Awatea's Treasure
School principal Fraser Smith writes about how his debut children's novel Awatea's Treasure went from idea to manuscript to published...
The Ones We Follow: NZ kids' book websites
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...
Pounamu Pounamu: Miriama Kamo's first crush
Miriama Kamo is one of New Zealand's foremost broadcasters. She looks back on her book-loving childhood, and that time she tried to get...
In the Stacks: a love letter to public libraries
Kate De Goldi confesses the pleasures of reading 'off-task and off-curriculum', and describes how necessary public libraries are to the...
Torty and the Soldier, by Jennifer Beck
David Hill reviews Torty and the Soldier, a picture book about the true story of a very old tortoise, by Jennifer Beck and illustrated by...
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