Aotearoa: World of Children's Books

Bridge to Anywhere.   Written by Sarah Milne.  Illustrated by Laura Bee.   Beatnik Publishing, 2024.  ISBN 9781991165787.  Aotearoa.  Family...

Share a New Zealand book for children or teens: that taught you something new.  Critters of Aotearoa: 50 bizarre but lovable members of our ...

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...

Big babies written and illustrated by Patrick O'Brien. Charlesbridge, 2024.  Dinosaurs!  Oh my oh my oh dinosaurs! written and illustra...

A book from Oceania:  Halu Bongo! Story by Lani Young; gagana Samoa by Sisilia Eteuati; art by Nikki Mariner. Nafanua Press, 2022.  Poor Bon...

ZAMBIA:  Rise of the lioness: restoring a habitat and its pride on the Liuwa Plains.  By Bradley Hague.  In western Zambia, the vibrant worl...

TONGA:  The mouse and the ant.  Retold and illustrated by Lisala Halapua.   Mouse is tricked out of eating a banana by some ants.

TAIWAN:  Guji Guji.  By Chih-Yuan Chen.  Raised from an egg by Mother Duck, Guji Guji is quite content with life as a duckling, having no id...

SWITZERLAND:  The revenge of the black cat: Swiss myths.  Edited and retold by Katja Alves.  Offers 23 traditional tales from different regi...

SRI LANKA:  The boy who met a whale.  By Nizrana Farook.  A thrilling adventure set in fictional Sri Lanka, jam-packed with peril and kidnap...

SOMALIA:  Muktar and the camels.  By Janet Graber; illustrated by Scott Mack.  Muktar, an 11-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, ...