From the Shop Floor: Time Out Bookstore
We are pleased to present a regular monthly series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest children's...
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Book Awards: Finalists for Te Kura Pounamu
Three books are finalists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Te Kura Pounamu category, celebrating the best...
A Range of New Picture Books from Aotearoa
Thalia reviews four new picture books from Aotearoa: a whimsical gumshoe story, two books introducing our wildlife taonga to children,...
From the Shop Floor: Scorpio Books
We are pleased to present a regular monthly series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest children's...
Book Reviews: Two great kiwi junior fiction titles
Split consciousness features in very different ways in these two wonderful junior fiction titles for opposite ends of the audience age...
Book Reviews: Three new picture books
Author and former bookshop owner Annemarie Florian tells us about three quite different recent releases, from New Zealand and further...
Nida Fiazi: Books, Homes, and World Refugee Day
For World Refugee Day, former refugee Nida Fiazi writes about her life and how books have intersected with it, and includes her...
From the Shop Floor: Unity Wellington
We are pleased to present a regular monthly series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest children's...
Book Reviews: Three new books in te reo Maori
Reviewing three new picture books in te reo Māori today is former teacher, gallery educator, librarian and student, Kay Benseman, along...
The Books That Formed My Childhood
Bonnie Etherington, author of the multi-award-nominated novel The Earth Cries Out, reminisces about the stories and books from her...
Book Reviews: Three New Picture Books
A notorious witch, some butterflies, and a fantail that can't stay still. Reviewer Holly Walker enjoys a trip down memory lane with...
Book Reviews: Three NZ Picture Books
Each of these vibrant, colourful books comes from an independent publisher. Helen Vivienne Fletcher finds a lot to love about them. A...
The Reckoning: The national book awards
Fantasy and science fiction writer Karen Healey reckons that the national book awards, the NZ Book Awards, are erroneously named. Why not...
From the Shop Floor: Wardini Books
We are pleased to present a regular monthly series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest children's...
Book Reviews: Three NZ junior fiction reads
From first readers to well-developed adventure stories, Tim Gruar finds a lot to admire in these three new Kiwi junior fiction books -...
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