Features

Monsters and Chaos Walking – thirty minutes with Patrick Ness

A Stack of Librarians: the 2024 SLANZA conference

A day in the life: Rebecca ter Borg

Quiz: 2024 Notable Books

Takeaways from a Masterclass in Illustration

From the Shop Floor: Tijori

A Day in the Life: Dïne

The Reckoning: The Science of Writing Science

The Sampling: The Gavin Bishop Treasury

The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 44

From the Shop Floor: Pictura Children’s Book Shop

Three Pieces of Advice from Joy Cowley

The Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 Books

The Sampling: Dear Moko

Photos from the Picture Me window painting

Interviews

Monsters and Chaos Walking – thirty minutes with Patrick Ness

Interview: Nicola Daly on Indigenous Worldviews in Picture Books

Interview: Ned Wenlock on his best first book award winning ‘Tsunami’

Interview: Steve Mushin on Ultrawild

Interview: Dame Lisa Carrington and Scott Pearson

Interview: Elizabeth Gray on the Whakapapa of Sound

Illustrator to Illustrator: Five Things I Wish I Could Ask Another Illustrator

Interview: Rachel Lawson on Picture Me 

Interview: Kate Preece on Ten Nosey Weka 

Interview: Stacy Gregg on Nine Girls

Interview: Maia Bennett on judging the 2024 NZCYA awards

For fox’s sake: An Interview With Juliette MacIver

Interview: Claire Mabey on The Raven’s Eye Runaways

Interview: Jane Arthur on Brown Bird

Interview: Bringing the shadow of Tūmatauenga into the light

Reviews

Reviews: Five fresh picture books

Review: four recent picture books

Review: Three new wildlife titles

Reviews: activity books for the holidays

Reviews: New titles in two popular series

Review: Lisa Carrington Chases a Champion

Te Arotakenga: Ko Lisa Carrington Me Te Toa Whakaihuwaka

Review: New titles in two great local series

Review: Three picture books with messages for their readers

Review: Three adventurous new graphic novels

Reviews: Bumper Batch of Nature Books

Reviews: Two Middle-Grade Historic Narratives

Review: New YA from Mandy Hager—Gracehopper

Reviews: Pasifika Picture Books

Review: Aotearoa YA that rivals The Hunger Games


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