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Matthew Cunningham and Susan Brocker
Children's authors Matthew Cunningham and Susan Brocker caught up over email to talk story ideas, inspiration, and wrangling animals in...

Bookseller Top Picks: Books That Surprise
Here's a fresh and delicious selection of top bookseller picks, straight from the team at The Children's Bookshop in Christchurch!...


Book Awards: The Junior Fiction Finalists
As part of our coverage for the NZ Book Awards, we asked the publishers of the junior fiction finalists what it was about these...

Across the Ditch: Bob Graham talks storytelling
The Sapling's Simie Simpson, a long-time fan girl of award-winning, Australian picture book author and illustrator Bob Graham, literally...

Book Quiz: The 2020 children's book awards
The final announcement of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults is less than a month away, and we've been doing...


Illustrating new kiwi tale The Longdrop
Bob Darroch is known New Zealand-wide for his depiction of bedtime favourite The Little Kiwi, but for this book he has taken a swerve...

Book Reviews: Reo Maaori Picture Books with Birds
Here are some awesome new book reviews from Mikaere Flavell! He read the books with his niece Māia and wrote up his thoughts for us here...

Arotakenga Pukapuka: Ngaa manu o te wao
He arotakenga pukapuka hou nā Mikaere Flavell ēnei! I pānuitia ngā pukapuka e Mikaere rāua ko tāna irāmutu, ā, i tuhituhi ia i ētahi...

Book Awards: The Young Adult Fiction Finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we've asked the authors of the young adult fiction...


Book Awards: The Picture Book Finalists
It seems only right that the review for the picture book finalists for NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults should be...

Book List: Matariki Picture Books
The rising of Matariki is just around the corner and councils, schools and organisations around the country are celebrating the occasion...

Book Reviews: New from Reading Warrior
David Riley's books bring attention to amazing Pasifika people – both those here in Aotearoa and throughout Polynesia and the wider...

Illustrator Day-in-the-life: Amy Haarhoff
Amy Haarhoff won the 2019 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award, and The Midnight Adventures of Ruru and Kiwi was published in April 2020. Her...

Bookseller Top Picks: Being Yourself
Our next top bookseller picks comes from the delightful little corner of Nelson that is VOLUME. Stella Chrysostomou and Thomas Koed have...


The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 28
Giselle has visited the theme of anthropomorphism in her comics in the past—remember birds with arms?—but recently she has been...
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