As the next instalment in our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five finalists of the...

Fossils, e-bikes, sci-fi movies, teenage hoons, an abandoned mine, step-grandparents, a big Lotto win in a small kiwi town and one of the...

Ricky’s family buy a mansion in a trendy suburb, with panoramic views of the city. Too good to be true… Yep, a real bargain. But this...

Rafferty is an orphan, raised by monks. Misfortune strikes and he is outcast, and must fend for himself. He uses his cunning and charm to...

When her family moves suburbs, Laura discovers an old abandoned house on her street. It seems like the perfect hideout, but something –...

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...

Teacher Rachel Moore reviews five New Zealand junior fiction titles, including the first two in a new series by Maureen Crisp, the first...

One day on Twitter, Jane Bloomfield discovered that mega bestselling Australian author Jacqueline Harvey was setting up to move in just...

Weather. We can't avoid it. And right now, after six weeks of glorious warm weather that we never complained about, no siree Bob no...

When we asked if Suzanne Main would write an article about funny books for kids, her reaction was, ‘What do I know about funny books? I...

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...

Today Kura Rutherford introduces Dr Darryn Joseph (Ngāti Maniapoto), a writer, dad, illustrator, comic collector and Māori language...

While most of our reviews are of NZ titles, occasionally we check out what is being hyped overseas. Each of these titles are the stars of...

Ridiculously prolific pony writers Kelly Wilson and Stacy Gregg each take a very different approach to their work but at the heart, their...

An excerpt from Suzanne Main's How Not to Stop a Kidnap Plot, a Junior Fiction novel that tells the tale of how Michael's desire to get...