Dame Fiona Kidman is a legend of letters in Aotearoa. Among her many achievements and accolades, she's been the recipient of the Prime...

The Sapling is dedicated to bringing you the best books from Aotearoa for gifting this holidays, and this year we are doing a little...

Today is Diwali, the Indian festival of lights! And given that 3.9% of Aotearoa's population has an Indian background, it seems fitting...

The Reo Pēpi series is one of the real success stories in the Aotearoa world of publishing for littlies. The popularity of these...

It's the most wonderful time of the month! Another Giselle Clarkson comic. Today our resident illustrator extraordinaire takes us through...

Welcome back to another Sapling quiz! Today, we're testing your knowledge of New Zealanders who have picked up international prizes for...

The 2020 winner of the Bookshop of the Year Award was Wardini Books – and we've persuaded Louise Ward to give us some of her top picks!

Glenn Wood's new young adult read brings to life some classic horror fiction with brains, a guts full of humour, gory detail...

Chances are if you've had a young reader in your life in the past decade or so, you'll have a Dawn McMillan book or two somewhere...

Three years ago, we asked Thalia Kehoe Rowden to put together a list of picture books showing a variety of family set-ups. At the time,...

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori continues with this installment of The Reckoning from University of Waikato senior lecturer Nicola Daly, where she...

If you paid attention to our NZCYA Awards coverage, you would have seen one book appear more than any other!

Filmmaker and writer Miro Bilbrough reflects on a childhood backdrop of whimsical watercolour illustrations and the allure of...

Way back in 2017, Cathy-Ellen Paul did a great list of Queer Books for School Libraries, and we thought it was about time to add to that...

If you are as committed to children's books as Giselle and The Sapling team are, no doubt you've found yourself pondering many branded...