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NZ Chart-toppers of 2025: Children's and YA

Check out the children's and YA books from Aotearoa that hit the top spot on 2025's bestseller lists.

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Looking to spoil a voracious young reader this summer? Take a look below at the books from Aotearoa for kids and young adults that hit the top spot on 2025's bestseller lists. We've featured some of our reviews and interviews below to help you choose!

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Check out the reading list...

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Blackmail and Lies
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Where is Hairy Maclary?
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My First Words About Tikanga Maori
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Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm
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The Tomo
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Toot the Tow Truck (Nee Naw and Friends)
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Bear
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Giraffe the Gardener
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The New Zealand Easter Activity Book
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The New Zealand School Holidays Activity Book
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The Case of the Missing Stuff: Violet and the Velvets Book 1
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The Lost Saint
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Dreamslinger: Slinger Series Book 1
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Matariki Around the World: a Cluster of Stars, a Cluster of Stories
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Pukeko Who-keko?
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Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)
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ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021
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Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1
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Nine Girls
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The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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The Fate of Dragons
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Goat on a Tractor
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Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words
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The (Not So) Superheroes
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Mum's Busy Work
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Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas
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Hooked: Learning to Fish

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