Kiwi Kids Book Chat
Episodes
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 8 - Jennifer Beck
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins.In our monthly podcast, we are committed to chatting about kiw...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 7 - NZ Book Award finalists 2025
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins.In our monthly podcast, we are committed to chatting about kiw...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 6 - NZ Book Award finalists 2025 : Junior Fiction
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins.In our monthly podcast, we are committed to chatting about kiw...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 5 - the work of Maria Gill
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins.In our monthly podcast, we are committed to chatting about kiw...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 4 - some fab new kiwi kids' books
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 3 - The work of Ned Barraud
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 2 - Storylines Non Fiction Notable Books
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 1 - Top 20ish NZ Kids' Books to read before high school
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, w...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 19 - Wrap Up
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week is a wrap up of some of our favourite books of th...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 18 - The Great Outdoors
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we check out the books which feature NZs great outd...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 17 - Des Hunt
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we delve into the work of the legend that is Des Hu...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 16 - Christmas Book Buying
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Description Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we have a whole host of suggestions for...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 15 - Kiwi Kids Book Bites2
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we chat with some of our students about what they l...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 14 - Shooting Stars by Brian Falkner
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we feature Shooting Stars by Brian Falkner which ha...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 13 - Kiwi Kids Book Bites
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we chat with some of our students about what they l...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 12 - KLQ Kids' Favourite Books
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. After last week's chat about KLQ, this week we chat to so...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 11 - Kids' Lit. Quiz
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we chat about the phenomenon that is Kids' Lit....
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 10 - David Hill & Phoebe Morris and their narrative non-fiction picture books
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we feature the narrative non-fiction titles by Davi...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 9 - Book Awards 2024 Part 2
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we are featuring four more of the categories of th...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 8 - Book Awards 2024 Part 1
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we are featuring three of the categories of the 202...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 7 - Book Awards 2024 Intro
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we are featuring a bit of an overview of the 2024 B...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 6 - Matariki
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week we feature some of the beautiful Matariki books whi...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 5 - Wilding Books
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. The three books featured in this episode are all worth a look...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 4 - Three New Titles
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. The three books featured in this episode are all worth a look...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 3 - Manga
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. We love this episode where we interview three of our Year 8 b...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 2 - ANZAC
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. Well we are back into it! This episode took about three attem...
KKBC Season 2 : Episode 1 - Reintro
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a 2 year hiatus, the reason for which is explained within, Teacher-Librarians Julie Huggins and Penny Walch are relaunching their podcast which ...
KKBC : Episode 9 - Graphic Novels
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. Well we certainly made up for the short episode last week… ...
KKBC : Episode 8 - The Reading Tribe
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with school librarians Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week’s mini episode features The Reading Tribe by Davi...
KKBC : Episode 7 - Wildlife Week
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week’s episode celebrates New Zealand Sea Week and International Wildli...
KKBC : Episode 6 - Myths and Legends
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week's episode is the second of a two part feature which immerses itself i...
KKBC : Episode 5 - Myths and Legends
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week's episode is the first of a two part feature which immerses itself in...
KKBC : Episode 4 - Sport
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week's episode nods to the Winter Olympics / Paralympics in Beijing and ce...
KKBC : Episode 3 - the books of David Hill
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week's episode revels in the work of David Hill: Sky High (Jean Batten) He...
KKBC : Episode 2 - Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week's episode delves into Te Tiriti / The Treaty and features the followi...
KKBC : Episode 1 - Who we are and why we are here!
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Kiwi Kids Book Chat with Penny Walch and Julie Huggins. This week's episode explains how the podcast came into being, and feature...