The winners of the 2021 Book Awards are ...
Fresh off the ceremony at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the results are in and your New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young...
Book Awards: junior fiction finalists
Where do we usually get our recommendations for books to read? The bookshop, of course. We've asked people from five bookshelves to sell...
Book Awards: The Best First Book Finalists
One of our favourite bits of the lead up to the NZCYA Awards each year is getting the finalists in one of the categories to interview one...
Book Awards: The Picture Book Award FInalists
We're always trying to keep things fresh and interesting in our awards coverage, whether that's remixing what we do with which category...
Book Awards: The Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Maaori
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...
Book Awards: The Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Finalists
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...
Book Awards: Young Adult Finalists
There are some cracking YA reads in the NZCYA finalists this year; there's realness, drama, history, fantasy and just some downright good...
The finalists of the 2021 NZ kids' book awards are...
Each year, the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults make for a massive occasion in the Aotearoa kids book world – move...