Eileen Merriman has just published her third YA book, but it is the impending publication of her first adult novel that has her...

What a treat to be handed three titles with wonderful female protagonists. While they all sit comfortably in the junior fiction or middle...

New Zealand schools have been back for a month now. How's your knowledge of fictional schools, teachers and classrooms in Aotearoa...

Australia-based New Zealander Bren MacDibble has been a published writer for many years, but only recently broke into the trade...

Colleen Shipley has been a librarian almost all her working life, but it wasn’t until she returned to work after having children that she...

The only thing these two books have in common is that they are absolutely stunning, and they are broadly for a junior fiction age range....

'From where I sleep I can see the book on my bookshelf. I have read it so many times it has fallen apart, and now exists as an inelegant...

Illustrator Stevie Mahardhika is best known for his work for Scholastic NZ, including Row, Kiwi, Row Your Boat and the new picture book...

In this new book, psychologist Gwendoline Smith (AKA Doctor Know) teaches teens about what's going on in their minds and how to get their...

Hearing the wonderful news that six more towns are going to be Refugee Resettlement centres, we got thinking about what books might...

Debbie McCauley is an award-winning author, historian, indie publisher, librarian and poet with a passion for telling the stories of her...

Do you recognise the name Avis Acres? Giselle Clarkson fills us in on the importance of this early figure in New Zealand children's...

Over Summer, my nephews and I read some recently published te reo Māori and bilingual children’s books. Nō Tauranga Moana rāua, Te...

In this new book, psychologist Gwendoline Smith (AKA Doctor Know) teaches teens about what's going on in their minds and how to get their...

In 2014, New Zealand teacher Kerri Thompson participated in a Global Read Aloud. This programme was founded by US educator Pernille Ripp....