As the next instalment in our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five finalists of the...

Fantasy's a funny word for the genre of imaginative worlds, considering how many of the places created are the last place anyone would...

The Invincibles: Power Up! is the first book in a super-charged new junior fiction series. Regular old rugby practice turns into...

How to help our children manage their emotions around the climate crisis. It’s a hot topic. Helping our children manage those big...

As part of our ongoing finalist coverage of this year's New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we have some glorious...

Carly Thomas reviews two non-fiction books for older kids that explore ideas of people and place, and a fun rhyming book for younger...

The ceremony for this year's New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults is creeping ever closer, with the big event taking...

Kimberly Andrews is the illustrator of the re-illustrated Joy Cowley picture book, Song of the River (Gecko Press). Here she tells us –...

As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we've asked the publishers of the picture book...

Penguins have appeared in famed picture books with relative frequency over the years – and not just because a fair few books happen to...

Lucy Black reviews five new picture books that explore ideas of people and place. Join Aroha, Flit, Polly, two boisterous boys and the...

For the third instalment of our shiny new Mahy Questionnaire, we thought we had better select an author who has a career in books in...

This year's NZCYA Awards coverage kicks off with the Best First Book finalists! We asked them to tell us, in their own words and with...

One of the biggest-selling and most-loved children's picture books in New Zealand is undoubtedly My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve...

Bonjour Lucy Bee is a fast-paced holiday adventure novel. Lucy Bee is on a family reunion holiday in France when she finds an injured...