We've canvassed so many amazing bookshops in our From The Shop Floor feature over the years, and it only seemed right to return to some of those bookshops for another check in. But to mix things up, we're now asking some of our favourite booksellers for their top books in a genre of their choice! Today, Lucy Black from The Children's Bookshop in Kilbirnie, Wellington gives us recommendations focused on overcoming struggle – from Lucy herself and some of her brilliant colleagu

Lucy Black reviews five new picture books that explore ideas of people and place. Join Aroha, Flit, Polly, two boisterous boys and the girls in the kapa haka as they each in their own way show what it is to be a kid in Aotearoa these days. Aroha’s Way by Craig Phillips (Wildling Books) Books about emotions and how to deal with them are some of my favourite kids' books. I remember being young and reading Aldo by John Burningham, the bittersweet sadness and evocative painted il