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

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

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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!

Reviews

The Tomo by Mary-Anne Scott
Bear by Kiri Lightfoot
Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Missing Stuff by Rachael King

Interview

The Lost Saint by Rachel Craw

Extract

Dreamslinger by Graci Kim

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Cover of Blackmail and Lies

Blackmail and Lies

by

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Where is Hairy Maclary?

Cover of My First Words About Tikanga Maori

Cover of Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm

Cover of The Tomo

The Tomo

by

$25.00 NZD

Cover of Toot the Tow Truck (Nee Naw and Friends)

Toot the Tow Truck (Nee Naw and Friends)

by

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Bear

Cover of Giraffe the Gardener

Cover of The New Zealand Easter Activity Book

Cover of The New Zealand School Holidays Activity Book

The New Zealand School Holidays Activity Book

by

Cover of The Case of the Missing Stuff: Violet and the Velvets Book 1

Cover of The Lost Saint

Cover of Dreamslinger: Slinger Series Book 1

Cover of Matariki Around the World: a Cluster of Stars, a Cluster of Stories

Matariki Around the World: a Cluster of Stars, a Cluster of Stories

by

$34.99 NZD

Cover of Pukeko Who-keko?

Cover of Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

Moto Mike the Motorbike (Nee Naw and Friends)

by

$21.99 NZD

Cover of ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021

ELLIE COPTER: NEE NAW AND FRIENDS: 2021

NEE NAW AND FRIENDS

by

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1

Cover of Nine Girls

Cover of The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Cover of The Fate of Dragons

Cover of Goat on a Tractor

Goat on a Tractor

by

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

Cover of The (Not So) Superheroes

The (Not So) Superheroes

The Terrible Trio #1

by

$18.99 NZD

Cover of Mum's Busy Work

Cover of Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

Nee Naw's Cracker Christmas

by

$21.99 NZD

Cover of Hooked: Learning to Fish

2

Where is Hairy Maclary?

A Lift-the-Flap Book

by

$19.99 NZD

3

My First Words About Tikanga Maori

by

$21.00 NZD

4

Granny McFlitter Stitches Up a Storm

by

$21.00 NZD

7

Bear

by

$27.99 NZD

8

Giraffe the Gardener

by

$21.00 NZD

9

The New Zealand Easter Activity Book

by

$14.99 NZD

11

The Case of the Missing Stuff: Violet and the Velvets Book 1

Violet and the Velvets Book 1

by

$18.99 NZD

12

The Lost Saint

by

$29.99 NZD

13

Dreamslinger: Slinger Series Book 1

by

$24.00 NZD

15

Pukeko Who-keko?

by

$21.00 NZD

18

Hairy Maclary and Friends: Little Learning Library: 4 books in 1

4 books in 1

by

$15.99 NZD

19

Nine Girls

by

$22.00 NZD

20

The Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

by

$29.99 NZD

21

The Fate of Dragons

Dragonfall Book 1

by

23

Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words

by

$23.00 NZD

25

Mum's Busy Work

by

$30.00 NZD

27

Hooked: Learning to Fish

Learning to Fish

by

$35.00 NZD