Story: Children’s and young adult literature

More links and websites

• Children’s literature

  This page lists the major collections of children’s literature held by the National Library.

• KidsBooksNZ

  This review blog promotes recent New Zealand books for children.

• Education – New Zealand Book Council

  The Education section of the New Zealand Book Council website contains news, reviews, and articles about New Zealand books for children.

• LIANZA children’s book awards

  These annual awards are administered by the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa.

• ‘Making its own history’: New Zealand historical fiction for children, 1862–2008

  Louise Clark’s 2010 PhD thesis on historical fiction for children.

• New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards

  These annual awards are the largest of their type in New Zealand.

• Storylines

  The website of the Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust contains news as well as information about awards and authors.

More suggestions and sources

• Clark, Louise. ‘“Making its own history”: New Zealand historical fiction for children, 1862–2008.’ PhD thesis, University of Waikato, 2009.

• Cowley, Joy. Navigation: a memoir. Auckland: Penguin Group (NZ), 2010.

• Gilderdale, Betty. ‘Children’s literature.’ In The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English, edited by Terry Sturm, 526–574. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.

• Gilderdale, Betty. Magical Margaret Mahy. Auckland: Penguin Group (NZ), 2013.

• Gilderdale, Betty. A sea change: 145 years of New Zealand junior fiction. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1982.

• Macdonald, Finlay. The life and art of Lynley Dodd. Auckland: Penguin Group (NZ), 2013.

• O’Brien, Gregory. A nest of singing birds: 100 years of the New Zealand School Journal. Wellington: Learning Media, 2007.