Children's author, storyteller and award winning playwright, Helen Vivienne Fletcher discusses storytime. She takes us through finding...

Tara Black attended a masterclass at the Auckland Writer's Festival on how to create a picture book with Shaun Tan—and she was kind...

Sometimes, we need a little escapism with a side of pep in our reading. A little pick-me-up. And fantasy can be just the thing. After...

It's New Zealand Music Month, so our quiz for your brain teasing pleasure today is all about singalong books from writers, illustrators...

Your favourite former science/technology teacher turned eco-fiction writer Des Hunt is back with a new title, Inside Bubble Earth:...

Should children be persuaded to read critically-acclaimed and classic books? Today Steph Matuku, an award-winning writer and mother from...

We have a delightful installment of our Day In the Life of an Illustrator feature today—with someone more used to gallery walls than...

Our resident illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Clarkson takes us on an epic tour of some fabulous local bookish monuments - including a...

Our relationship with children's books evolves as we grow older, becoming parents or aunties and uncles or just willing readers to...

The jump from kindy, kōhanga, daycare, or home to SCHOOL can be quite a leap. Former Sapling co-editor, and mother of two kids who have...

Discussion of self isolation and social distancing and mask wearing may all feel very 2020s – but for those not in the know, two titles...

Welcome back to another Sapling quiz! This month's quiz blends current releases with a healthy dash of Aotearoa children's book history...

How does a bookish child develop a love of reading in a household with few books? Libraries of course! Kelly Gardiner writes about the...

Last weekend, Tara Black attended a masterclass on how to create a picture book, led by Joy Cowley. This was a fundraiser for Featherston...

Lani Wendt Young is back with a new title, Fire's Caress - the second in her Telesa World series for teens. Enjoy this excerpt from pages...