Have you read many comics with Deaf characters using sign language? How about queer characters and environmental themes?...

Ross Kinnaird has been a children's book illustrator for 15 years, and his first and most recent collaborations were bot...

Australian author and editor Davina Bell is an exceptional storyteller for kids aged 2 to 12. Her broad range of books i...

We love comics, and we love the artists behind them! So for this month's Giselle Clarkson comic, we have something a lit...

We are pleased to present a regular series highlighting the work, expertise and enthusiasm of some of the greatest child...

One of the titles released in the wake of the 250th anniversary commemorations of Cook's arrival in Aotearoa is The Adve...

Amanda Noblett (Tainui, Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Pākehā) plays the kuia in Te Kuia me te Pūngāwerewere, Taki Rua...

In celebration of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, our 2019 guest editor Kura Rutherford spoke to actor, writer, and activist Raw...

Sāmoan illustrator Michel Mulipola recently sat down with Tokelauan/Sāmoan artist Moses Viliamu at the Whitireia Polytec...

Paula Green is one of New Zealand’s most (probably the most) energetic and passionate ambassadors for poetry ever. She h...

The Sapling has asked two first-time middle-grade authors, Felicity Williams and Weng Wai Chan, to interview one another...

Another week, another category of NZCYA Award finalists to highlight! Today, it's the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction...

As the next instalment in our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five fi...

Morris Gleitzman, acclaimed author of Toad Rage and many other books, is the 2018–19 Australian Children’s Laureate – th...

Fossils, e-bikes, sci-fi movies, teenage hoons, an abandoned mine, step-grandparents, a big Lotto win in a small kiwi to...