The Sapling's Simie Simpson, reviews four new picture books from Aotearoa that feature a dog searching for a forever home, a racing buggy...

Green MP Golriz Ghahraman made history as the first refugee to be sworn into the New Zealand parliament. She has just published her first...

Children's book author and designer Vasanti Unka reckons that we could do better with our use of the colours from our multicultural...

Mandy Hager and Helen Vivienne Fletcher are both Wellington-based writers of YA and other things. Sarah Forster was excited to read...

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...

Each of these three action-packed books has a great cast of characters, some daredevil heroes and is written for kids aged 7+. Sarah...

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...

Today we say 'Happy Birthday!' to Paula Boock's ground-breaking novel for young adults, Dare Truth or Promise, published on this day,...

Ko tēnei Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! Today we have a love letter to Te Ātea, a futuristic Young Adult story about a nuclear holocaust and...

New Zealand Young Adult fiction is as good as any in the world. So why doesn't it have a higher profile with young readers in Aotearoa,...

An excerpt from Gareth Ward's debut steampunk adventure novel and winner of the 2016 Storylines Tessa Duder Award, The Traitor and the...