Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins.
As we head into 2025, refreshed and ready to rock and roll, we have decided to change the podcast to a monthly affair, rather than fortnightly, as our school embarks on a number of big changes.
We are still committed to chatting about kiwi kids lit, and lit that kiwi kids are reading and can't wait to waffle with abandon.
This week is a true Work of Waffle as we wax lyrical about our Top 20 (ish) New Zealand books which WE think children should read before high school! It is a real conversation, full of ums, ahhs and meanderings!!!
Books highlighted in the episode, in no particular order whatsoever:
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
Dazzlehands by Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan The Bomb by Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan
The Tomo by Mary Anne Scott
From the Cutting Room Floor of Barney Kettle by Kate De Goldi
Uncle Jack by Kate De Goldi
Wildlife of Aotearoa by Gavin Bishop Gavin Bishop board books - E hoa, Mihi, Koro Aotearoa by Gavin Bishop The House that Jack Built by Gavin Bishop Kiwi Bees Have Tiny Knees by Rachel Weston
The Last Tuatara by Des Hunt Project Huia by Des Hunt
Monkey Boy by Donovan Bixley How Maui Slowed the Sun by Donovan Bixley
Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale End of the Alphabet by Fleur Beale The Grimmelings by Rachel King
Samples From the Lab by Rob Foote
Kowhai and the Giants by Kate Parker
This is where I stand by Philippa Werry
Ultrawild by Stephen Mushin
Katipo Joe by Brian Falkner Shooting Stars by Brian Falkner
Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh
The Princess and the Foal by Stacy Gregg The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith
Greedy Cat by Joy Cowley
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton
Te Reo Singalong books by Sharon Holt
The Little Yellow Digger by Betty and Alan Gilderdale
Baa Baa Smart Sheep by Mark and Rowan Sommerset
First to the Top (and others from David Hill & Phoebe Morris Famous New Zealanders series) See Ya, Simon by David Hill My Brother’s War by David Hill Below by David Hill The Great Piratical Rumbustification by Margaret Mahy
The Call of the Kokako by Maria Gill
Incredible Journeys by Ned Barraud
Remember that November by Jennifer Beck and Lindy Fisher
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