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The Dragon at the Zoo, Melanie Koster and Craig Phillips
Scholastic, 2026

Melanie Koster’s new picture book, The Dragon at the Zoo, is picture book heart ...


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The 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists are:


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Sometimes I am in the mood to go to a favourite place but it is too far or the weather is too wild or am not well so I travel to a place in a poem. Wonderful! It might be a beach ...


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Singing and brightening the world
A little bird in a big world
can make a difference.

Adam H, Westmere School

I was inspired by Giselle Clarkson’s magni...


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Kiwi Health Heroes
Caitlin Timmer-Arends and Rebecca Waddell
illustrations So-Young Cho
Bateman Books, 2026

‘The greatest untapped resource . . . is ourselves.”
Ph...


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