Philippa Werry

Guest writer

Philippa Werry is an award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, picture books, plays and poetry, with a strong focus on New Zealand stories and history.

Fragments from some of the children’s book pages that used to live within Aotearoa’s newspapers of old.

‘One little corner for the children’: New Zealand’s lost children’s book pages

The quirky and star-studded history of Aotearoa's once-thriving pages dedicated to newspapers' youngest readers.

By Philippa Werry | 30th August, 2025