Zeustian Logic is Kiwi illustrator Sabrina Malcolm's first YA novel. She started it during a YA Writing Workshop in 2013 at Victoria...

Gillian Candler argues for more recognition of the importance of New Zealand non-fiction books for children, while at the same time...

To celebrate the publication of My Meerkat Mum (her 15th picture book), Ruth Paul reflects on the childhood stories and antics that...

We are fascinated by the phenomenon of the Kids’ Lit Quiz™, so we asked National Library Services to Schools Facilitator in Northland...

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

Over the past decade, Kiwi illustrator Richard Fairgray has moved from self-publishing comic books, to picture books, to being picked up...

Today, Release, a new YA novel by Patrick Ness, hits the shelves of New Zealand bookshops. We asked a Wellington-based book club – adults...

Penny Scown, the Senior Editor at Scholastic NZ, takes us behind the scenes in the publishing process of Tāwhirimātea, A Song for...

This month, our illustrator takes on generational politics and the housing crisis, and comes up with a viable scapegoat ... GISELLE...

Soon after the 2015 banning controversy in New Zealand, Into the River was purchased by US publisher Polis Books, and will be released in...

An excerpt from James Norcliffe's Twice Upon a Time, a Junior Fiction novel about Ginny's search for her Pop. It is full of quirky,...

Nina Powles remembers the thrill of being scared by stories as a child, and not quite believing in ghosts but not not believing either...

Two of New Zealand's best writers sat down for a chat recently. Here's poet, essayist and editor Ashleigh Young's write-up about her...

Poet and teacher Rachel O’Neill interviews author and storyteller Ivan Coyote ahead of their appearance this May in Auckland, Wellington...

Poet Hannah Mettner considers two international books aimed at inspiring a love of poetry in young readers. A detail of an illustration...