Ahead of Father's Day, four Kiwi Dads let us in on what their family reading lives are like. Here are some excerpts from previous The Sapling articles by music journalist Nick Bollinger; founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and writer at Crime Watch Craig Sisterson; political cartoonist, comic artist, illustrator, and writer Toby Morris (aka The Pencilsword), and journalist, writer and editor of The Spinoff Books, Steve Braunias. First up is Nick Bollinger, with an account of re

The editor of The Spinoff Review of Books and author of The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, Steve Braunias reports on what his ten-year-old daughter has been reading lately. Books are like stars shining down on little kids. They lit up Minka’s world, they glowed, they were magical and necessary. We’ve kept some of the most loved of those picture books as souvenirs of childhood, and they sit in the bottom row of her bookcase – Where is the Green Sheep, Baby Happy Baby Sad, Huge Haro