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...
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Day In the Life: DEBORAH HINDE
Deborah Hinde is a Aotearoa illustrator, and her most recent title is Enough: A story about community. She spends her days running her...
A Reflection on Ben Ngaia's Ngake Me Whaataitai
Welcome to Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! Here’s our first (reo Pākehā) article for this important week. Zeb Nicklin interviewed Ben Ngaia, the...
I whakaaroarohia te Pukapuka Ngake Me Whaataitai
Nau mai ki Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! Koinei tā mātou pūrongo tuatahi mō tēnei wiki whai tikanga. Nā Zeb Nicklin i patapatai ki Ben Ngaia,...
An Interview with Swapna Haddow
Swapna Haddow has serious chops when it comes to comedic writing for children, and this time she’s moved from pigeons and bunnies, to...
Day In the Life of an Illustrator: Phoebe Morris
Join Phoebe Morris, illustrator of The Adventures of Mittens: Wellington's Famous Purr-sonality for our Day in the Life feature. Between...
Waffle explores NZ – and Hayley explores publishing
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...
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...
Day In the Life of an Illustrator: Catherine Bagnall
We have a delightful installment of our Day In the Life of an Illustrator feature today—with someone more used to gallery walls than...
Day In the Life of an illustrator: Flox
Even if you don't know Flox... you know Flox. Her iconic artwork has appeared on everything from murals to umbrellas to trains – to...
Revitalising The Boy with Two Shadows – Sarah Greig
It's no secret that we're big Margaret Mahy fans around these parts. Between our Mahy questionnaire, and being, well, living and...
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 10
Our beloved illustrator Giselle Clarkson has fallen in love again... with another book! Scroll down to see her brilliant review of...
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 9
Our biscuit & bird illustrator Giselle Clarkson has taken on her first *current* book review! Scroll down to get a brilliant perspective...
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 8
Our illustrator Giselle Clarkson not only features in the brand new Annual 2, she also has epiphanies in the shower. GISELLE CLARKSON...
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 7
Our illustrator Giselle Clarkson has been thinking very hard about the classic Little Golden Book, Kathryn Jackson and Gustaf Tenggren's...
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