Tales about errant road cones, moving true-life stories and rugby-playing dogs star in the latest New Zealand children's picture books. Kete Books editor Dionne Christian takes a look.
Setting out to attract the sort of reluctant reader he used to be, author and youth counsellor Tim Tipene happened upon a neat idea: a book that takes over and effectively reads itself! In The Book that Wouldn’t Read — and the Māori edition Te Pukapuka .