LONG LIVE AOTEAROA'S CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Sapling is dead, long live The Sapling. Just kidding. The Sapling is most certainly not dead—but we have run out of puff, and we are...
The Reckoning: The Brown Brick Road
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...
The Reckoning: Kids and the Classics – A Lost Cause?
Should children be persuaded to read critically-acclaimed and classic books? Today Steph Matuku, an award-winning writer and mother from...
The Reckoning: Fighting reluctance with humour
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...
The Reckoning: Who are they written for?
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori continues with this installment of The Reckoning from University of Waikato senior lecturer Nicola Daly, where she...
Teaching Stories From This Land And Beyond
Here's a new instalment of The Reckoning from writer and teacher Tania Roxborogh. She considers the use of Māori in classrooms and...
Ngaa Pakiwaitara o teenei Whenua me Taitua
Nā Tania Roxborogh tēnei arokatenga i tuhi. Hei tāna, te whakamahi o te reo Māori ki roto o ngā akomanga me ngā pakiwaitara o Aotearoa me...
The Reckoning: David Hill on 'Gentle Readers'
We're always interested to see what David Hill has to say – whether it's his novels, his picture books, or his reviews. In this latest...
The Reckoning: Taking Children's Books Seriously
Eileen Merriman has just published her third YA book, but it is the impending publication of her first adult novel that has her...
The Reckoning: Invisible Heroes and their Legacy
Novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka is wondering where our Māori heroes were, in the commemoration of WWI. Her upcoming YA novel...
The Reckoning: The colour of culture
Children's book author and designer Vasanti Unka reckons that we could do better with our use of the colours from our multicultural...
The Reckoning: Appropriation vs Authenticity
When is it okay for creative people to draw on cultural traditions they're not part of? Illustrator, writer and teacher Zak Waipara has...
The Reckoning: What the heck is Maaori Literature?
In the fourth of our features in celebration of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, award-winning writer Steph Matuku battles clichés, stereotypes,...