Harriet Elworthy asked parents to read the young adult finalists in the New Zealand Books Awards for Children and Young Adults alongside their teens and tweens. Here are the reactions from these family read-a-thons. My kids’ recommendations have led me…
Arihia Latham takes the reo Māori finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults to kura. Books in te reo Māori are always devoured in our whare. My nine year old tamāhine goes to kura kaupapa,…
Belinda Whyte took a group of students to the first Books Alive event held in Palmerston North and found that a love of books is truly alive. ‘Who likes books?’ asked Rachael King in her first set at the Books…
Librarians Claire Guest, Merritt Barnett and Stephen Clothier took the five finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults’ picture book category to library storytimes, and share the tamariki’s reactions here. At Te Matapihi ki te…
Kura Rutherford shares Michael Park School’s audacious plan to develop their own medal ceremony (again), and opens the finalists for the Best First Book Award to the scrutiny of the judges. It seems a lifetime ago that the Michael Park…
The finalists for the non-fiction award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults cover incredibly diverse subjects and styles. We asked the authors and illustrators what inspired them to research and write their books. From sport…
The shortlist for the junior fiction category at this year’s New Zealand Childrens and Young Adults Book Awards features five wildly different, stellar novels. We asked the authors what they’d most like to know about each other’s books. The writers…
The finalists for this year’s New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards were announced at 6am this morning. Here are our reactions … The BookHub Picture Book Award Beddy Bye Time in the Kōwhai Tree, by Juliette MacIver, illustrated…