Book Reviews: Lively New Books for Young Readers
When the review titles arrived this month, my kids called me the Book Queen and hugged the pages to their chests, eyes wide, already...
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Interview with Dawn McMillan: Home Child
Home Child, based on child migrant Pat Brown’s early life, is such a major change of pace, a poignant, heart-wrenching story by a writer...
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:...
Book List: NZ books about war and pacifism
Anzac Day brings with it a fever pitch of publishing of war books for both children and adults. This has been especially true during the...
War! What is it read for? War books for kids
Author Melinda Szymanik considers war books for children, how they create deeper empathy, and tells us what writers balance as they write...
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