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:...

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!...

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...

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...

Kristin Smith reviews the five Te Kura Pounamu finalists in this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. He kōrero Māori...

Rachel Moore reviews three world-class Kiwi series for readers from around the age of seven: Miniwings by Sally Sutton, Flying Furballs...

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...

Mark Broatch reviews four recent picture books by New Zealand authors and illustrators – Inspector Brunswick: The Case of the Missing...

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...

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

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...

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...

Kate De Goldi confesses the pleasures of reading 'off-task and off-curriculum', and describes how necessary public libraries are to the...

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...