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The Winners of the 2022 NZCYA awards are...
It's the most wonderful time of the year... the night of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults!
LONG LIVE AOTEAROA'S CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Sapling is dead, long live The Sapling. Just kidding. The Sapling is most certainly not dead—but we have run out of puff, and we are...
Alan Dingley ON BEING A BOOK AWARDS JUDGE - TWICE
Alan Dingley is a Librarian at Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School, former Youth Librarian at Palmerston North City Library’s...
Book Awards: The Best First Book Finalists
One of our favourite bits of the lead up to the NZCYA Awards each year is getting the finalists in one of the categories to interview one...
Book Awards: The Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Maaori
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...
Book Awards: the illustration finalists
This year we're kicking off our NZCYA Awards coverage with the Russell Clark Award for Illustration finalists! We have some exclusive...
The finalists of the 2021 NZ kids' book awards are...
Each year, the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults make for a massive occasion in the Aotearoa kids book world – move...
Book Quiz: World Famous Beyond NZ
Welcome back to another Sapling quiz! Today, we're testing your knowledge of New Zealanders who have picked up international prizes for...
The winners of the 2020 Book Awards are ...
Fresh off an online ceremony (which you can watch here!) the results are in and your New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young...
Book Awards: The Non-Fiction Finalists
Simie interviewed five booksellers from around the motu about their favourite finalists in the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction category...
Book Awards: The Reo Maaori Finalists
Our coverage of the category finalists continues with reviews from a couple of talented tamariki. Elliah and Hineraukura have provided...
Book Awards: The Junior Fiction Finalists
As part of our coverage for the NZ Book Awards, we asked the publishers of the junior fiction finalists what it was about these...
Book Quiz: The 2020 children's book awards
The final announcement of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults is less than a month away, and we've been doing...
Book Awards: The Young Adult Fiction Finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we've asked the authors of the young adult fiction...
Book Awards: Best First Book Finalists
Another week, another category of NZCYA Award finalists to highlight! Today, it's the Best First Book finalists, answering questions...
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