Kete and The Coalition for Books’ Winter Reading campaign has begun! The campaign brings together 77 new books from Aotearoa published in the lead up to and over the winter months.

Our Winter Reading 2024 catalogue features exciting new fiction, books for tamariki and rangatahi, a wide range of compelling nonfiction, and a selection of brilliant new books for Matariki.

A printed version of the catalogue will be inserted into 30,000 subscriber editions of the New Zealand Listener on 17 June (cover date: 22 June) and will also be available in selected booksellers and libraries around the motu.

A digital campaign on social media and via the Kete Books website and newsletter will promote an online version of the catalogue with clickable links to the books on BookHub.

Help us to spread the word, support the campaign and showcase Aotearoa NZ books!

Shareable social media tiles are available here. Click each image and save it to be able to access and post it from your social accounts.

Matariki books
The Matariki selection of books for Winter Reading 2024 was led by Maatakiwi Wakefield (Kāi Tahu whānui, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto) and Ngapiu Tainui Maclure (Kāi Tahu whānui, Te Rarawa), Māori Library Services at Christchurch City Libraries.

The Matariki books pages will feature in the latest edition of Te Rau Ora Library Life, the LIANZA magazine alongside an interview with Maatawkiwi and Ngapiu (first published on Kete) discussing the the kaupapa behind their selection.

Read this two-part interview on Kete and on the LIANZA website:
Starry cluster of new pukapuka give a bigger picture on Matariki
Storytelling at Matariki and Puaka

The catalogue is available to download and print from the links below. 

Digital and printable versions of the catalogue and social media tiles are available here.

With thanks to Jo Pearson and Allen & Unwin New Zealand for illustrations from Five Wee Pūteketeke.

And with thanks to Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa) and Scholastic New Zealand for illustrations from My Matariki Colouring and Activity Book.