Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women (Penguin...
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The finishing touch(es): Fleur Beale on editing
Fleur Beale has written over 50 books for children and teens. Her latest novel is Lyla. Here, she lets us in on the amount of time and...
Sarah Davis: Re-drawing our classic books
Margaret Mahy's The Christmas Tree Tangle was originally published in 1994, and a newly illustrated edition was released by Puffin in...
Ned Barraud: A day in the life of an illustrator
The superb New Zealand writer and illustrator team, Gillian Candler and Ned Barraud, have recently released their sixth collaboration in...
Gavin Bishop's Voyages of Discovery
We get two legends together for this extraordinary interview about an extraordinary book, Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story. Donovan Bixley...
Across the Ditch: Freya Blackwood Chases Rabbits
Children's book designer Vida Kelly has worked with Freya Blackwood at various times throughout Freya's career as an illustrator. This...
Leilani Tamu & the books her kids are reading
Poet, historian and Green Party candidate Leilani Tamu shares the importance she places on words and ideas in her family – and the one...
Searching for the Snark with David Elliot
Legendary author and illustrator Gavin Bishop interviews legendary author and illustrator David Elliot about his masterwork, Snark....
A day in the life of a picture-book writer
Marmaduke Duck creator, Juliette MacIver explains how she's managed to write such a vast number of excellent rhyming picture books, so we...
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