Lest we forget: Remember the fallen on ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day is celebrated in Australia and New Zealand on 25 April. It is a time when we remember New Zealanders and Australians who fought in wars around the world. We might attend a dawn service and...
View ArticleJune Star Author Competition
Our fantastic June Star Author, Susan Brocker has been writing some great posts about her stories and giving us some cool writing tips. One of her books that Susan has been talking about is her latest...
View ArticleThe Drover’s Quest by Susan Brocker
Our June Star Author, Susan Brocker has just released a fantastic new book called The Drover’s Quest. It’s filled with Susan’s favourite things, including history and animals, and it’s set in New...
View ArticleIdeas for stories are all around us
Often when people discover I write stories they want to know where my ideas come from. I tell them that it’s from the things I love and the things I’m interested in. When I wrote The Drover’s Quest,...
View ArticleIf you like The 39 Clues you’ll love The Infinity Ring
The Infinity Ring is a new interactive series like The 39 Clues. It’s one of those books that comes with extra bits and pieces so that you can find out more about the story and the characters. The...
View ArticleDear Papa by Anne Ylvisaker
Dear Papa by Anne Ylvisaker is about a family who live during the Second World War. Isabelle Anderson is nine years old when she begins writing to her father, who died a year ago. The Anderson family...
View ArticleHistory
For my latest book I’ve been researching a lot of history, right back to 1096 AD when the Crusading Knights left Europe and retook Jerusalem. Did you know that before the First Crusade there was a...
View ArticleA Winter’s Day in 1939 by Melinda Szymanik
Taken from their home, forced to leave their country, put to work in labour camps, frozen and starved, Adam and his family doubt that they will ever make it out alive. Even if they were to get away,...
View ArticleMy Brother’s War by David Hill
My Brother’s War by David Hill is a finalist in the Junior Fiction category of the 2013 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. This was one of the books that I hadn’t read at the time it was...
View ArticleW.A.R.P.: The Reluctant Assassin book trailer
The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run. Riley has been pulled into the...
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