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Book List:Â NZ-focused young reader novels
In response to a request The Sapling put out on Twitter, teacher and author Sarina Dickson has compiled this wonderful list of New...
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2018 End-of-Year Shopping List: Junior Fiction
Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas – or on any gift-giving occasion? We are...
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Book Reviews: Two great kiwi junior fiction titles
Split consciousness features in very different ways in these two wonderful junior fiction titles for opposite ends of the audience age...
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THE SAMPLING: The Mapmakers' Race by Eirlys Hunter
We're pleased to present an excerpt from The Mapmakers' Race (Gecko Press), a new novel by Eirlys Hunter and illustrated by Kirsten...
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A Day in the Life: Illustrator Kirsten Slade
Kirsten Slade is the illustrator of the new kids' novel by Eirlys Hunter, The Mapmakers' Race (Gecko Press). Here she tells us – in words...
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