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Best Cookbook Award for Enjoy!Sep 27, 2024 "An absolute feast from start to finish" – that's the judges' verdict on Enjoy: Food Worth Sharing with the People You Love
A delightful curve-ball gem of a picture book!Sep 25, 2024 This month, we’re releasing a delightful curve-ball gem of a picture book – a study in fun, surreal contrasts in the tradition of story-telling masters such as Spike Milligan. That...
It's A Win For Beatnik!Mar 25, 2022 We have some exciting news to share. In a live ceremony from Bologna, Italy, earlier this week, Beatnik was announced the winner of the Bologna Prize, Best Children’s Publishers of...
Lockdown sucks but we have some fun news – Muki And Pickles!Oct 05, 2021 Kia ora,Well the news here in NZ wasn’t quite what we wanted to hear regarding moving down alert levels but at least we have great news...*nervous grin emoji* *drum roll*The much awaited children’s book Muki and...
Hare And Ruru’s An AWARD WINNER!Aug 12, 2021 What a fabulous evening we had at the Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in Wellington last night. 🎉 We are elated, proud, thrilled, grateful (and more) that Hare and...
June 2021 – Celebrating Laura Shallcrass, Jordan Rondel & Courtney Sina Meredith.Jun 01, 2021 Hellooo.The temperature may have plummeted, but we’re excited to be celebrating three of our amazing Beatnik authors, who together represent our three main styles of Beautiful Books: beautiful pictures, beautiful...
May 2021 – Silver Lining From 2020 – My Cat Can See GhostsMay 04, 2021 It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago we experienced our first lockdown, many hunkered down trying to making sense of the pandemic, but illustrator and writer Emily Joe, decided...
SOMEWHERE – More Migration StoriesAug 08, 2020 Somewhere – Women’s Stories of Migration, is an anthology that brings an inspiring and uniting voice to the globally relevant topic of migration through the stories of 20 women. More...