Oratia Media

Oratia Media is an independent publisher based outside Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, with distribution across its home market, in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe.

Founded as a publishing services business in 2000, since 2008 it has developed as a publisher of the Oratia Books list with a focus on children’s, Māori, history and general non-fiction books by New Zealand authors and illustrators. We publish about 15 new titles per year and maintain an extensive back list.

Oratia participates in major book fairs and sells and buys rights worldwide, while remaining grounded strongly in our home base in the rain forest of Oratia (‘place of the long-lingering sun’). Our publishing reflects a multicultural, multilingual and inclusive outlook, with a growing number of our children’s books being bilingual in English and Māori. The Five Oceans imprint, launched in 2025, brings translated works to readers in New Zealand and Australia, and our Moana Oceania Series features books about the South Pacific, many in Polynesian languages.