Masterton children's book delivers message - A Masterton-based artist and writer is hopeful his new illustrated children's book will encourage some important con-versations about "taking care of our most precious things".
Ian Chapman is the creative mastermind behind Left To Nowhere, a dark fantasy tale inspired by environmental degradation, fixation with technological progress, and the "complacency that breeds contempt" when it comes to things we value.
Chapman's book, published by OneTree-House in Auckland, centred around a humanoid race of creatures who live in a world where multi-coloured balloons "grow in the air like weeds".
The creatures grow obsessed with creating "bigger and better balloon-popping machines" - until they notice all the balloons have been destroyed, and they miss the beautiful surroundings they assumed would always be there.

Book critic Catherine Robertson presents a range of titles including 'The Other Brother' by Jax Calder.

Reproduction of review by Trevor Agnew for The Source website.

Elaine Wills from Enner Glynn School reviews a book from My Gagana series 3.

Reproduction of reviews by Trevor Agnew for The Source website.

This has to be one of my top reads this summer. Loved, loved, loved it. Once I started I just couldn’t put it down.

Hannah Marshall reviews our two Pipi and Pou books with other recent junior fiction releases.

Louana McCormack reviews and highly recommends this book from the Pipi and Pou series.

Ange Birks from Ōhinewai School reviews Out of the Egg.

Joanna Ludbrook from Chicken and Frog bookstore in Featherston reviews the new Pipi and Pou series.

Bob Docherty says "I have never read a story like this before but at the end information is released that will either make you happy or not. I was happy."

Reproductions of Trevor Agnew's review for The Source website.

Louana McCormack reviews and highly recommends this book from the Pipi and Pou series.

Linda Jane Keegan includes Bubble Earth in a round up of NZ non-fiction

Isabella Lenihan-Ikin's review as part of the Spring edition of Ako.