HarperCollins New Zealand: Books for Children

HarperCollinsPublishers, whose head office is in New York, is one of the world's leading English-language publishers. It is a division of the global media organisation News Corporation and has significant publishing interests in Canada, the U.K. HarperCollins was established in 1989 with the amalgamation of Harper and Row (USA), William Collins (UK) and Angus and Robertson ( Australia). This union

of strong global publishers resulted in a uniquely powerful company, with the literary heritage of each augmented by the international reach of News Corporation. Today, HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, general interest, religious and spiritual books. In New Zealand the company was established in 1888 as a division of William Collins in the UK and its strength in this market stems from a strong involvement in local publishing.