Here is a selection of the best new titles for kids and young adults added to our collection in 2019. You will find something here to excite, enthuse, enthral and inform.
2019
- Picture books
- Younger fiction
- Older fiction
- Young Adult
- Art and Activities
- Science and Technology
- People and Places
- Language, Poetry and Stories
- Nature
- Graphic novels
What’s new
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Past editions
2018
- Picture books
- Younger fiction
- Older fiction
- Young Adult
- Activities and Art
- Science and Technology
- People and Places
- Books, Stories, Poetry and Language
- Nature
- Graphic novels
2017
- Picture books
- Younger fiction
- Older fiction
- Young Adult
- Art and activities
- Science and technology
- People and places
- Poetry, fairy tales, language, or literature
- Natural world
- Graphic novels
Picks from the Best (and Worst) Children's book evening
Best Older Fiction and Young Adult Reads in 2017 as picked by Rachael King, WORD Christchurch Literary Director.
Best Junior Fiction Reads in 2017 as picked by Zac McCallum, Halswell School Librarian.
Best Picture Books in 2017 as picked by Sophie O'Rourke, junior school teacher at Waitakiri Primary School.
2016
- Picture books
- Younger fiction
- Older fiction
- Young Adult
- Art and activities
- Science and technology
- People and places
- Words and Children's literature
- Natural world
- Recommended read-aloud picture books
2015
- Picture books
- Younger fiction
- Older fiction
- Young Adult
- Te Reo Māori
- Information books: animals, science and geography
- Information books: history, art and literature
