An article for UK magazine Books for Keeps on the state of New Zealand’s children’s books scene
Chances are, if you live in the UK, you can’t immediately call to mind the names of very many New Zealand children’s authors. This is because, while British books are almost all shipped off down under through the distribution arms of multi-national publishers or independent networks, the traffic is mostly one way. For a New Zealand (or indeed, Australian) children’s writer to appear on the shelves in UK bookshops, they really need to have a UK publisher. Publication by Penguin NZ, for example, does not guarantee publication by Penguin UK, which acts as a separate entity – unless it’s coming the other way.
Read the article at Books for Keeps
