The First Ever NZ Children's Book Week!
By Lizzy
We are so excited to celebrate kids reading books with the first NZ Children's Book Week! Here's how you can get involved too!
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New Releases to add to your TBR (11th August)
By Lizzy
There's a new release for everyone this week - here's your TBR roundup! Lizzy shares her picks from the newest in fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks and children's books!
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The Books I'd Recommend For Every New Parent
By Lizzy
From the very first picture books, the life changing poetry, as well as the books that provide up to date information - here's Lizzy's reading list for every new parent!
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Books for Helping Kids with Emotions
By Lizzy
We all know emotions can be overwhelming and tricky, for adults as well as kids! These are some of my favourite picture books and board books, perfect for supporting little...
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Parenting Lessons From Bluey
By Lizzy
Lizzy is sharing 5 of the big life lessons and parenting tips she discovered thanks to the children's favourite, Bluey! Turns out it's the best TV show out there.
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Chapter Books for the Classroom
By Lizzy
Lizzy is sharing her chapter book recommendations for reading to classes - including the ones she loved back when she was a teacher, as well as the new ones she...
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Books for Kids Who Love the Planet
By Lizzy
Whether you have a small child who loves traveling to new places, or a homebody who loves reading books with lots of maps and facts in them - I've rounded...
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How to Raise a Reader
By Lizzy
Lizzy is sharing her top tips for raising a reader - whether you're a parent, teacher or grandparent, here are some things that can help with fostering a love of...
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Keeping the Kids Entertained These Holidays
By Lizzy
Two weeks of keeping the children entertained (and yourself too!) can be a challenge, but we've come to give you some ideas for activities and outings that can be more...
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Puzzles & Board Games for the School Holidays
By Amelia
Growing up, school holidays were always filled with excitement, but eventually we'd run out of things to do, especially during winter when it was too cold to spend much time...
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Lizzy's Lists of Cookbooks!
By Lizzy
Lizzy's been busy collecting lists of her favourite cookbooksand there's everything from her top favourites to those for kids learning to cook!
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Celebrating the launch of 'Royalslinger' with Graci Kim
By Sacha
We had the incredible privilege of hosting the launch celebration for Graci Kim's new novel, 'Royalslinger', and it was one of the biggest, most magical events we've ever held. With...
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Bluey: Why This Show Has Become a Family Favourite
By Sacha
Why Bluey is a family favourite and how it's become part of our lives!
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Mānawatia a Matariki from Book Hero!
By Lizzy
Book Hero is here to celebrate Matariki with lots of activities, pukapuka (books), and invitations for the whole whānau to take part and enjoy slowing down this Winter.
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Why We Love Our Toniebox... and Why We’re Excited for Bluey Tonies!
By Tim
Bluey tonies are coming to Book Hero!
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Win Minions & Monsters movie tickets!
By Kevin
"Bello! Want to score FREE movie tickets? 🍌 Share your all-time favourite movie quote below to enter to win a double pass to Minions & Monsters!" Winners will be picked...
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Board Games for Kids & Families
By Amelia
In our family board games have always been a big part of spending quality time together. It’s how we bonded with our brothers' partners, how we relax at the end...
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Board Games on the Go: The Best Travel Games for Every Adventure
By Amelia
Whether you’re road-tripping around New Zealand, heading off on a trip overseas or just trying to survive a trip with the kids, travel games are the perfect solution to keeping...
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Introducing Tonies - screen-free storytelling for kids
By Dylan
We’re incredibly proud to now be stocking Tonies at Book Hero. The Toniebox is a beautifully simple, screen-free storytelling toy for kids - a soft, durable speaker that plays stories, songs...
Book Hero Origin Stories...
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Two Years. Three Warehouses. One Wild Ride.
I can’t believe I’m already sitting down to write this blog post. Book Hero isn’t even two years old and we’ve already moved once before, which means we’re now onto...
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The Next Chapter in our Story
Today we’re incredibly excited to share the next chapter in our story. Later this month, we’ll be launching Toy Hero - a brand-new home for toys, imagination and play.
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Little Heroes, and an Easter to Remember
Even though we’re an online business, our physical bookstore feels like the heart of everything we do. There’s something special about stepping away from the screen and being around people...
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Another big year ahead
If we thought 2025 was a busy year, 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger. Before we get started, I’d like to be cheeky and acknowledge a small personal...
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Reflecting on 2025
Looking back on 2025, it has been without doubt the most challenging year of my life — and also the most rewarding. For a long time, I’ve held two competing...
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Fresh off the back of our Christmas Bookshop Day (only our second ever in-person event) it’s fair to say it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at Book...
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One year on - and we’re just getting started
Exactly one year ago today, the Book Hero website went live, and a hopeful but fragile idea transformed into a fully functional business with real people, real shelves, real books...
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What Does a Modern Bookshop Look Like? Celebrating NZ Bookshop Day
Tomorrow is New Zealand Bookshop Day, an event championed by the Booksellers Association of New Zealand to encourage book lovers to celebrate their local bookshop. Having not quite achieved the...
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Welcome to our New Home
We’ve done it — 40,000 books moved across a single weekend to our new home just around the corner at 8/4 Rawiri Place, Hobsonville. If you know Hobsonville, we are...
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Waving goodbye to Workspace Drive
When we signed our lease at 2/6 Workspace Drive we intended to call it home for the next three years — but our growth during our first nine months has...
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Growing Pains
I’m delighted to report that things are not slowing down at Book Hero. We delivered more books to customers in May than we did over the busy Christmas period in...
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Post-Christmas Update
It’s been over four months since my last Book Hero update so I thought it was the right time to celebrate some key milestones and reflect back on the busy Christmas period…...
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