Illustrator Giselle Clarkson shows us how books can be read differently each time ... and why sometimes this is advised. GISELLE CLARKSON...

One of the lessons of childhood is that not everything has a happy ending. Or a tidy ending. Or an ending that can be understood ......

The editor of The Spinoff Review of Books and author of The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, Steve Braunias reports on what his ten-year-old...

The Sapling editor Sarah Forster writes about her childhood spent between New Zealand and Australia, the books she read as a result, and...

Music journalist Nick Bollinger shares a moving account of the place books had in his three daughters' childhoods and his own parenthood....

Award-winning fiction (for grown-ups) writer Pip Adam recalls her earliest introductions to story through television and magazines, and...

To celebrate the publication of My Meerkat Mum (her 15th picture book), Ruth Paul reflects on the childhood stories and antics that...

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

Multi award-winning US slam poet Anis Mojgani writes about the things which captivate us as children, the magic and promise books hold,...

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...

Chief Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library and award-winning children's book writer, Chris Szekely on how he became a writer. As a...