Giselle has visited the theme of anthropomorphism in her comics in the past⁠—remember birds with arms?⁠—but recently she has been...

In the last couple of months, we have seen the effects of COVID-19 wreak havoc worldwide. The mental health of both children and adults...

Jackie Clark is a woman who gets stuff done. She may be familiar to readers of The Sapling as the founder of The Aunties, a charitable...

This year's NZCYA Awards coverage kicks off with the Russell Clark Award for Illustration Award finalists! We have some exclusive...

Hannah Benbow is the comics and cartoons librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington – and she draws on that expertise in...

The annual New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a highly anticipated part of the Aotearoa literary calendar, for...

It's a feeling all booksellers know too well. A book is one of your eternal favourites, you have perfected your sales spiel, you've...

Dahlia Malaeulu found herself writing every day in lockdown, drafting 12 stories in seven days before realising what we all now know:...

Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa 2020 - Happy Samoa Language Week 2020! Today we have an extract from Teine Sāmoa, by Dahlia Malaeulu,...

Nalini Singh, author of the New York Times bestselling Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series, reminisces about the stories and books...

How well do you know your books of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa? Here's a classic Sapling multiple-choice quiz to get you scratching your heads...

How many books have you read about Muslims since the Christchurch mosque shootings? How many have you read in your lifetime? In this...

We've canvassed so many amazing bookshops in our From The Shop Floor feature over the years, and it only seemed right to return to some...

Brian Falkner is the author of over a dozen books for teens and younger readers, published in New Zealand, Australia, the US and the UK....

Remember getting one of those books from a kindly relative that features you – your name and everything! – dropped into a story? Sapling...