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How to Capture an Audience (Kiwi-style)
In April, Ruth Paul and Juliette MacIver took their Kiwi author-illustrator talents over to the United Arab Emirates – more specifically,...
Picture Books for Resilience and Persistence
Helping children deal with obstacles and setbacks is a core part of parenting and teaching. Today education lecturer and writer Frank...
Best Picture Books for New New Zealanders
Hearing the wonderful news that six more towns are going to be Refugee Resettlement centres, we got thinking about what books might...
Five of the Best Picture Books Featuring Kiwi
Of the hundreds of children's books featuring our national bird, here are some all-stars that will help children and adults alike get to...
2017 Christmas Shopping List: Picture Books
Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas - or on any gift-giving occasion? We are...
Father's Day: Four Dads on Reading at Home
Ahead of Father's Day, four Kiwi Dads let us in on what their family reading lives are like. Here are some excerpts from previous The...
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:...
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...
A day in the life of a picture-book writer
Marmaduke Duck creator, Juliette MacIver explains how she's managed to write such a vast number of excellent rhyming picture books, so we...
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