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2025 Storylines Notable Book Award winnerStorylines Notable Picture Books (age range from birth to 8 years)www.storylines.org.nz, Storylines Notable Book Award 2025recounts the real-life 1866 journey of Caroline and Nicolas Chevalier, who crossed New Zealand's rugged Southern Alps on horseback, acco...

A family's delightful journey across town and into a place which is fun, restful, informative, musical and absorbing in turn. A very special treat for library lovers, young and old alike, from one of Aotearoa's best-loved author/illustrators.Kei te haere tātou ki te wāhi pai rawa atu! E hiahiawhai...

Find one of New Zealand's heaviest spiders, a beetle once thought to be extinct, and many more interesting insects, as Kahukura plays hide and seek with her Chatham Island friends.Kate Preece, Pippa EnsorHardback, 32 pagesH: 250mm W: 250mm

A bedtime story with a mix of the familiar bathtime to bedtime routine and a sprinkling of moonlit magic. Six taniwha, all looking at me, sing "Beddy-bye time in the bubbly-white sea."It's almost bedtime and a young child counts objects, including kererū, taniwha, kea and sheep.Juliette MacIver, Lily UivelPaperback32 pages, H: 210mm W: 210mm Spine: 3mm

All is not going well on the farm where Whetū is looking after the magician the Mighty Mikaere’s animals. The new ewes are protesting. Baked Beans, the robot dog, has bitten the bull. And the new rabbit stagehand with the diamond-studded tooth is being incredibly annoying. Worse though – someon...

When Coach’s whistle goes missing and the football team can’t practise, Ollie and his new friend, Āria, lead the search.It takes a while for the rest of the team to follow Ollie, who’s got great detective skills, as they find him hard to understand because of his cleft. But Āria encourages t...

Meet Ruru, a bird of the night and a silent Night Hunter! Dusk creeps. Birds peep. Ruru opens his eyes, stretches his wings, and calls. More-pork! More-pork!Ruru, also known as a morepork, is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only surviving species of native owl. This book, set in an urban landscape, follows...

A perfect bedtime read about the creatures in the New Zealand bush at night.'Of all the bilingual formats in print, this story's best reflects the current vernacular. The mix of English and te reo Māori, with neither language dominating, is what you might hear in a school playground, neighbourhood ...

You’re not going in there, are ya?’ the man queried.‘The wharepaku?’ Pou frowned, eyeing the toilets.‘No—the forest.’ the old man said, pointing at the trees with a trembling hand. ‘You’d be mad to go in there. I wouldn’t go near the place if I were you.’‘Is that because it�...