With great power comes great responsibility, so goes the saying, and with digitisation comes great opportunity, too. But, in a world obsessed with clicks and swipes, there is danger in diverting our kids’ attentions from the good, old-fashioned book.
The NZ Booklovers Awards is now in its fifth year of celebrating the best of New Zealand books, and here are some of the shortlisted books in the Fiction Category, where the judges were looking for the best in storytelling, a novel they couldn't put down!