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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...

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...

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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...

Fifi Colston explains the costs involved in training as an illustrator, and how many books a year she has to illustrate to make ends...

We all have that one book; the one that turned us on to reading, or reached out and grabbed us by the heart and squeezed. Writer and...

Morrin Rout is a long time friend of the Mahy family, and a resident of Governor’s Bay, a town on the Banks Peninsula in Canterbury. Any...

Children's author, storyteller and award winning playwright, Helen Vivienne Fletcher discusses storytime. She takes us through finding...

Tara Black attended a masterclass at the Auckland Writer's Festival on how to create a picture book with Shaun Tan—and she was kind...

Sometimes, we need a little escapism with a side of pep in our reading. A little pick-me-up. And fantasy can be just the thing. After...