Christmas Reads from The Sapling
We interrupt this hiatus to bring you a list of Top Recommendations for the 2021 Holiday Season, created for you, our dear readers, as...
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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...
Co-Interview: Saradha Koirala and Gareth Ward
Saradha Koirala and Gareth Ward recently wrote sequels to YA books. While it was Gareth's second time writing a sequel, it was Saradha's...
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...
RESILIENCE, WHAANAU, AND THE POWER OF TRADITIONS
The work of some of our most prolific writers for children cannot be found in our libraries or bookshops. For Te Wiki o te Reo Māori,...
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,...
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...
New picture books from Aotearoa
The Sapling's Simie Simpson, reviews four new picture books from Aotearoa that feature a dog searching for a forever home, a racing buggy...
Author interview: Golriz Ghahraman
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman made history as the first refugee to be sworn into the New Zealand parliament. She has just published her first...
The Reckoning: The colour of culture
Children's book author and designer Vasanti Unka reckons that we could do better with our use of the colours from our multicultural...
Book Reviews: Two reality-based YA titles
Mandy Hager and Helen Vivienne Fletcher are both Wellington-based writers of YA and other things. Sarah Forster was excited to read...
Dystopian YA Fiction - About the Children
YA dystopian fiction had a massive run a few years back and then everyone got dystopian-ed out. Not me. I love teens saving dismal worlds...
Book Reviews: Three Junior Fiction Gems
Each of these three action-packed books has a great cast of characters, some daredevil heroes and is written for kids aged 7+. Sarah...
Book Reviews: Beautiful Mess & Broken Silence
If there is a trend right now in YA publishing, it has to be toward gritty teen drama, usually including the death of somebody close and...
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