NZ Festival Interview: R. A. Spratt
R. A. Spratt is an award winning author and television writer, best known for her two series' Nanny Piggins and Friday Barnes, Girl...
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Happy Birthday to Little Island Press
Happy 10th Birthday to Little Island Press! In celebration of this anniversary, Auckland teacher, writer and mother Emmaline Matagi sat...
From the Shop Floor: Children's Bookshop
We are pleased to present the first in a regular monthly series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest...
The Books That Formed My Childhood
The follow-up to the award-winning Annual is out this month, ready to be part of the formative childhood reading of a new generation of...
How to Dad: Jordan Watson Talks Books
Jordan Watson is better known - to millions of YouTube viewers - as How to Dad, giving hilarious advice on the practicalities of dad-hood...
The great Wardini, debut steampunk novelist
Earlier this month, we treated you to an excerpt from Gareth Ward's award-winning debut steampunk adventure novel, The Traitor and the...
Book Awards: the non-fiction finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the Elsie Locke Award for Non-fiction...
The anatomy of an illustrator: Cat Chapman
Cat Chapman is an Auckland freelance illustrator, having discovered her skills whilst doing a course in picture-book illustration with...
Book Awards: the Russell Clark finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five finalists of the Russell Clark...
Te reo for babies - as easy as tahi, rua, toru
Kitty Brown and Kirsten Parkinson (both Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe) are two wahine who've done everything right when it comes to...
Holly Walker and the books her kid is reading
Holly Walker is a parent, activist, reviewer and former Green MP, whose first book, The Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics and...
Across the ditch: an interview with Sally Rippin
Sally Rippin is one of the Big Names in Australian children's books. Christchurch librarian Zac McCallum interviewed her to celebrate the...
In conversation with Lauren Child, extraordinaire
Lily Max author Jane Bloomfield caught up with UK author/illustrator Lauren Child during the recent Auckland Writers Festival. We...
Toby Morris and the books his kids are reading
Political cartoonist, comic artist, illustrator, writer, dad: Toby Morris (aka The Pencilsword) describes how cool it is to watch his...
Terrors of a kind: an interview with Frances Hardinge
British writer Frances Hardinge is living proof that books for kids can be as good as books for adults: her last YA novel, The Lie Tree,...
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