The Children’s Book of the Year is an absolute joy

Announcing the winners of the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young People.  Right now the loveliest people in the country are gathered at Te Papa celebrating 2018’s most brilliant and amazing books for children and young people. The best of the batch, officially, as of just a few minutes ago: The Bomb. … Read more

Please, no more poos: the best children’s picture books of 2019

“Successful parenting is about ignoring the bad stuff and focusing unrelentingly on the good,” writes Catherine Woulfe – so let us rejoice in the line-up for best picture book at the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. There are so many shit books out there for little kids. Books where the … Read more