Writer and bookseller Adele Broadbent reviews five New Zealand picture books, including everything from cute creatures to a picture book...

October 2017 saw Sunshine Coast local Jessica Townsend hit the big time. Her children’s novel Nevermoor was the biggest-selling...

Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas – or on any gift-giving occasion? We are...

Hardcover non-fiction or poetry can be a great choice of gift for the special or hard-to-buy-for child in your life. Here are three...

On 28 November 1893, Māori and European women voted in national elections for the first time in New Zealand, having won a law change on...

We are pleased to present a regular monthly series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest children's...

Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas – or on any gift-giving occasion? We are...

Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas – or on any gift-giving occasion? We are...

'I’m a kindred spirit to Anne of Green Gables’ Anne Shirley. When I feel like crying, you see it in my cheeks, in the flicker in my eyes,...

Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas – or on any gift-giving occasion? We are...

Teacher Rachel Moore reviews five New Zealand junior fiction titles, including the first two in a new series by Maureen Crisp, the first...

From the city centre of New Plymouth, follow the main road north until you reach Beach Street. Hang a left and head down the road a few...

What fictional death have you never got over? That's the question asked of our editor Jane Arthur by poet Chris Tse, guest curator of the...

Early Childhood teacher Sara Croft reviews four New Zealand picture books. Two take us on the sea, and the other two feature a plethora...

The images and the story of Margaret Mahy’s “A Lion in the Meadow” have almost become a part of the collective consciousness of children...