Look at the Nielsen Bestsellers list each week, and you are certain to discover a whole range of books featuring kiwi. We are celebrating...

Liz Donnelly was inspired by the radio plays of her childhood, and her son's need for audio stimulation, to create a series of bilingual...

While most of our reviews are of NZ titles, occasionally we check out what is being hyped overseas. Each of these titles are the stars of...

New Zealand's school librarians are passionate, engaged professionals who know how to get students of all ages and reading levels into...

Children’s comics embrace all the possibilities inherent in good fiction. They are original, compelling and relevant, but also of...

Poet, author and anthologist Jenny Bornholdt tells us about the books she read - and heard - as a child. My earliest memory of being read...

Gecko, by Raymond Huber, illustrated by Brian Lovelock is the second Nature Storybook title from its creators. The book introduces the...

Raymond Huber's childhood was enriched by the stories of the Moomins, told by Tove Jansson. Here, he tells us about moomintrolls,...

Non-fiction writer Maria Gill ponders the nature of a creative non-fiction story for children and how creative non-fiction stories are...

Ruby McDonald-Bridge shares her love of Philip Pullman's world with us at The Sapling, during the week of the release of La Belle...

The superb New Zealand writer and illustrator team, Gillian Candler and Ned Barraud, have recently released their sixth collaboration in...

Ridiculously prolific pony writers Kelly Wilson and Stacy Gregg each take a very different approach to their work but at the heart, their...

Look at all these new books! Today we review five new picture books and find that, as usual, there's plenty of top-notch stuff being...

An excerpt from Suzanne Main's How Not to Stop a Kidnap Plot, a Junior Fiction novel that tells the tale of how Michael's desire to get...

About 12 months ago, Rachel Eadie was asked for permission to film in the bookshop she manages, Scorpio Books in Christchurch, for a very...