Create readers

The Talking Matters summit is a promising start towards a vision of children flourishing as thinkers, talkers and readers.

How do we get out of the way and create magical reading experiences?

Creating engaged, confident lifelong readers takes a school-wide reading culture with strong, home-school partnerships to help foster literacy and reading.

How do students at your school let you know what they’d like you to buy for the library? We look at some options for adding readers' voices to your collection development.

Books offer a window into the experience of refugees, which many students might otherwise never have.

The Kids Lit Quiz combines the element of competition along with the charm of simply talking about books and celebrating reading.

​On Friday, 25 August, people around New Zealand will be celebrating ​Phantom Billstickers ​National Poetry Day.

World Read Aloud Day in 2017 is on 16 February. It is an opportunity for people worldwide to share their love of stories and take action to promote the right to literacy for everyone.

Like Mary Poppins’ magical carpet bag, this Gecko Press Annual, edited by Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris, is a virtual bag of tricks — you can open the pages and discover, seemingly endlessly, one surprising delight after another.

Marama Keyte, the creative and resourceful librarian at Manaia View School in Whangārei, developed a successful, simple makerspace activity inspired by the picture book – Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts.