Kiwi Kids Book Chat
KKBC Season 3 : Episode 6 - NZ Book Award finalists 2025 : Junior Fiction
30 Aug 2025
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 kiwi kids lit, and lit that kiwi kids are reading and can't wait to waffle with abandon. This week were deep diving into the five finalists in the NZ Book Award Junior Fiction category. (And it does actually sound like we are diving... one day we will get the sound right!!) Four of our Kids Lit Quiz kids have reviewed the books and it is these wise words which you will be hearing today. Books highlighted in the episode:The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire MabeyThe Apprentice Witnesser by Bren MacDibbleBrown Bird by Jane ArthurDetective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li ChenViolet and the Velvets : the Case of the Missing Stuff by Rachael KingCheck out this The Spinoff podcast episode which gives a good overview of all the Book Award finalists.
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