The Mahy Questionnaire: Fleur Beale
You know it, you love it - it's the Mahy Questionnaire! This month's instalment features award-winning author Fleur Beale. She tell us...
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Book List: 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...
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...
Book Awards: The Junior Fiction Finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five Wright Foundation Esther Glen...
Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women (Penguin...
The finishing touch(es): Fleur Beale on editing
Fleur Beale has written over 50 books for children and teens. Her latest novel is Lyla. Here, she lets us in on the amount of time and...
THE SAMPLING: Lyla a novel by Fleur Beale
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is...
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