Split consciousness features in very different ways in these two wonderful junior fiction titles for opposite ends of the audience age...

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

Emma Neale is a Dunedin-based poet, novelist, and recently appointed editor of the esteemed New Zealand literary journal, Landfall, which...

We're pleased to present an excerpt from The Mapmakers' Race (Gecko Press), a new novel by Eirlys Hunter and illustrated by Kirsten...

Author and former bookshop owner Annemarie Florian tells us about three quite different recent releases, from New Zealand and further...

Kirsten Slade is the illustrator of the new kids' novel by Eirlys Hunter, The Mapmakers' Race (Gecko Press). Here she tells us – in words...

Whāngārei specialist children's librarian Meredith Wightman gives us a peek into her notebook today, and gives us a list of picture books...

As World Cup Fever sweeps, well, some of the nation, how well do you know your Aotearoa sporty books? Test yourself, share with a friend,...

Ngaere Roberts (Ngāti Porou) is one of our most prolific translators of children’s books into te reo Māori, having translated work from...

He mātanga, he atamai a Ngaere Roberts (Ngāti Porou) ki te whakamāori i ngā pukapuka mō te nohinohi, kua oti i a ia ngā pukapuka a te...

Marama Keyte is the school librarian at Kamo Primary School in Whangarei. She has been a school librarian for five years, after many...

Here's a Sampling with a difference: the book doesn't exist (yet)! Only Freaks Turn Things Into Bones by Steff Green and illustrated by...

As part of our finalist coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we have some exclusive insights into the...

Disability consultant, activist and blogger Robyn Hunt suggests 21 books, from picture books to YA, that illuminate experiences of...

For World Refugee Day, former refugee Nida Fiazi writes about her life and how books have intersected with it, and includes her...