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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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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