Lucy Black reviews some YA that cover some hard-hitting themes in Draw Me a Hero and The Dark Quest of Countess X: A Call to the World's...

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We're always trying to keep things fresh and interesting in our awards coverage, whether that's remixing what we do with which category...

Leoni Agnew is back with a magical new title, The Memory Thief, following the unexpectedly heartwarming friendship between Seth, lonely...

Every year, we pick one of the NZCYA Awards finalist categories to get a publisher perspective. This year, we came down ki te taha o...

Ruth McIntyre runs The Children's Bookshop in Kilbirnie, and is in the process of selling it to a new loving owner. Sarah Forster went to...

Award winning writer Leonie Agnew is next up for our Mahy questionnaire. Her latest book The Memory Thief is out this month but it hasn't...

Winter has finally come to Aotearoa, and it's brought with it a fresh batch of junior fiction titles! Here's librarian Dave Tucker's...

We at The Sapling always love a good behind-the-scenes look into our favourite books, and we know you do too! So, as part of our coverage...

There are some cracking YA reads in the NZCYA finalists this year; there's realness, drama, history, fantasy and just some downright good...

Don't look away, can't look away. Giselle Clarkson explores children's books that she is ghoulishly drawn to. Giselle Clarkson Giselle...

Rebecca Lim is an Australian writer, illustrator and editor and the author of over twenty books, including The Astrologer's Daughter (A...

"This is the book I wish I could have read when I was young. Growing up as a New Zealander of Chinese descent in a rural Southland town I...

Creating a picture book—whether it's story or illustration or both—is a massive undertaking in its own right. Doing all that and taking...

This year we're kicking off our NZCYA Awards coverage with the Russell Clark Award for Illustration finalists! We have some exclusive...