Aotearoa: World of Children's Books

Share a New Zealand book for children or teens by an author or illustrator you’ll always read Brigitta’s bicycle . Written by Heather ...

Share a New Zealand book for children or teens t hat is a new book by someone who recently won an award (within the last year or two).  ...

Share a New Zealand book for children or teens that is translated by a New Zealander The Little Rabbit books. Written and illustrated ...

  Timeline: science & technology: a visual history of our world. Written and illustrated by Peter Goes. Translated from the Dutch ...

  Girls who slay monsters: daring deeds of the Irish goddesses. Written by Ellen Ryan. Illustrated by Shona Shirley Macdonald. Harpe...

  Invisible. Written by Eloy Moreno. Translated from Spanish by Cristina Gahan. Sourcebooks Young Readers, 2026. A boy wakes up in...

  Home.   Written and illustrated by Isabelle Simler. Translated from the French by Vineet Lal.  Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2024....

  Earth. Written by Anna Skowrońska. Graphic design and illustrations by Agata Dudek and Matgorzata Nowak. Translation from the Poli...

  Night shift. Written and illustrated by Debi Gliori. Hot Key Books, 2017. Picture book for older readers / adults. A groundbreak...

  Neighbour's Cat. Written by Michael Rosen. Illustrated by Alex Willmore. Walker Books, 2026. Picture book. Our neighbour h...

  Who Will Make the Snow? Written by Taras Prokhasko. Illustrated by Marjana Proshasko. Translated from Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk a...

  Feather. Written and translated from the Welsh by Manon Steffan Ros. Firefly Press, 2024. Originally published in Welsh as Pluen ....

Love Around the World and Love Is Love Written by Fleur Pierets .  Illustrated by Fatinha Ramos .  Six Foot Press, 2019 and 2020.  I...

There are so many topics I could have covered, but I thought this selection represented some of my recent reading, and showed a range of top...

Up in a tree a bird sings so sweetly Nature's own voice, I hear Rustling whistling trees turning breeze to speech Talk to me now, ease m...

For some people, these books push the boundaries and need banning.  I think they need highlighting and celebrating. And, this is only a tiny...

I had a wonderful relationship with (most of) my grandparents. And, the relationship between child and grandparent can be a very special one...

Some of these titles have a looser connection to feelings than others. But, I wanted to showcase them all.  Choices by Roozeboos.  Not an ob...

This is a bit (a lot!) of an amalgamation of things, someone of a 'I want to include this, but where does it fit?' method of categor...

Death has become a specialist subject for me . I have read hundreds of children's books on the topic. So, it was hard to limit to just a...