In April, Ruth Paul and Juliette MacIver took their Kiwi author-illustrator talents over to the United Arab Emirates – more specifically,...

Joanna Grochowicz's second Antarctica-focused non-fiction book for young people has recently been released, and in this installment of...

For the second instalment of our shiny new Mahy Questionnaire, we thought we had better select an author who we knew would construct some...

Helping children deal with obstacles and setbacks is a core part of parenting and teaching. Today education lecturer and writer Frank...

Don McGlashan's love of words and ideas is evident in all his music. Today he tells us about throwing a picture book at the wall, wagging...

Quiz yourself on eight New Zealand picture books that illustrate Aotearoa’s multiculturalism and diversity. Can you get them all right?...

From the author of the highly acclaimed Into the White, Amundsen's Way: The Race to the South Pole (Allen & Unwin) is the gripping tale...

Kristy Wilson has been the School Librarian for Decile 1 Porirua College, three days a week for the past four years. More recently, she...

Many of the awards for children's literature in New Zealand (bestowed by either Storylines or the New Zealand Book Awards for Children...

The Sapling had been thinking for some time about how best to honour the late, great Margaret Mahy. Suddenly it hit us: A Questionnaire,...

Illustrating a picture book is not a simple A-to-B process. Minky Stapleton (the illustrator of Linda Jane Keegan's Things in the Sea are...

Alexandra Saunders admires Linda Jane Keegan's debut picture book Things in the Sea are Touching Me, for many many reasons. The bright,...

Writer Gem Wilder took her daughter to the School Strike 4 Climate on Friday, which reminded her of the first book she read in which...

This is a momentous occasion: it's the second anniversary of Giselle Clarkson Comics on The Sapling (actually, the second anniversary of...

Eileen Merriman has just published her third YA book, but it is the impending publication of her first adult novel that has her...