Every two weeks we compile, for your browsing pleasure, cool children's book happenings (and peripherally related news) from around...

One of the lessons of childhood is that not everything has a happy ending. Or a tidy ending. Or an ending that can be understood ......

The editor of The Spinoff Review of Books and author of The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, Steve Braunias reports on what his ten-year-old...

As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we've asked the publishers of the YA finalists to...

We asked Thalia Kehoe Rowden to put together a list of picture books showing a range of family set-ups, from one-parent families to...

Novelist Anna Mackenzie reveals a few truths about teaching, teens and the failings of the school curriculum, and explains why teaching...

Nina Powles looks into the children's book scene in China, finding an industry that is still 'young and is currently experiencing rapid...

Every two weeks we compile, for your browsing pleasure, cool children's book happenings (and peripherally related news) from around...

A few weeks ago, John McIntyre wrote his final replies to the last round of Dear John letters we received before he died. One of the...

The Sapling editor Sarah Forster writes about her childhood spent between New Zealand and Australia, the books she read as a result, and...

It's really cool that each year more and more local publishers are putting out children's books in celebration of Matariki. We've put...

New Zealand's school librarians are passionate, engaged professionals who know how to get students of all ages and reading levels into...

Author and illustrator Paul Beavis shares the behind-the-scenes work (and doubt, angst and inspiration) that goes into making his picture...

Music journalist Nick Bollinger shares a moving account of the place books had in his three daughters' childhoods and his own parenthood....

David Hill explains the pain required to gain in the wild world of book reviewing, and offers his reckons about how we could do it better...