Ko tēnei Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! Today we have a love letter to Te Ātea, a futuristic Young Adult story about a nuclear holocaust and...

Ko tēnei Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! All week, our guest editor Nadine Millar (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) will bring us literary insights and...

Every two weeks we compile, for your browsing pleasure, cool children's book happenings (and peripherally related news) from around...

Robyn Kahukiwa is one of the legends of New Zealand Picture Book illustration. She recently published Nga Atua: Māori Gods (Oratia Books)...

Our illustrator Giselle Clarkson has been thinking very hard about the classic Little Golden Book, Kathryn Jackson and Gustaf Tenggren's...

Incredible poet and children's fiction writer James Norcliffe reviews two books by Gecko Press, translated from the Swedish. Soda Pop is...

New Zealand Young Adult fiction is as good as any in the world. So why doesn't it have a higher profile with young readers in Aotearoa,...

The Best Loved-Bear by Diana Noonan, illustrated by Elizabeth Fuller is a Kiwi classic picture book. First released 23 years ago, this...

We are excited to present this excerpt from David Riley's Cook Island Heroes, the most recent book in his Pasifika Heroes series. David...

Did you know that there is a gathering especially for writers and illustrators happening in Auckland at the start of October? There is!...

Ahead of Father's Day, four Kiwi Dads let us in on what their family reading lives are like. Here are some excerpts from previous The...

Children's Theatre expert and teacher Robert Dil writes about the joy of seeing your favourite book on stage, the history of the...

We wanted to celebrate NZ Poetry Day this year with a fabulous list of children's poetry. And who better to bring this to you than our...

David Hill and Phoebe Morris have collaborated on a third picture book in their series introducing young New Zealanders to historic...

You know their words, you know their pictures ... but do you know their faces? We were very privileged to be at the New Zealand Book...