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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...
Book List: Books up for Bestseller of the Decade
What makes a bestselling New Zealand kids book? This list looks at eight of the bestselling kids books and what makes them so popular....
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...
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...
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