Giselle Clarkson’s new book, Omnibird, is a delightful dive into all things avian. As it’s popping up on ‘best of 2025’ lists all over the place, we asked her what inspired the book. Writer and illustrator Giselle Clarkson has done…
Giselle Clarkson ushers us into the holiday period with a glimpse at her halcyon days of summer reading. We at The Sapling wish happy summer reading to you all!
Fresh from the Observologist’s win at the PANZ Books Design Awards, Giselle Clarkson shares a peek at the process of book publishing.
Forward this link to your boss instead of a doctor’s certificate – the Giselle Clarkson comic is full of good reasons to skip work today.
The Non-Fiction shortlist is absolutely top class. We asked the finalists to pose a couple of questions to each other about their books. Read our comments about the books in all the categories here. Selina Tusitala Marsh asks Gavin Bishop……
The 2024 Auckland Writers Festival is coming up in a week with events taking place from 14 – 19 May. We asked the children’s events programmer Gabrielle Vincent about what’s going on for kids at the festival, and especially about…
Giselle Clarkson is kicking off her comics this year with the book character dress-up equivalent of kids running around shouting at panicking younger and smaller-vocabularied children that their epidermis is showing.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic has reached its fortieth post and what better way to celebrate than by giving someone a book. That you inscribed, maybe even in pen, with a personal message. Do you dare?
In this month’s comic, Giselle Clarkson comments on questionable rhymes and sketchy poems from the Mother Goose of yore.
Sapling editor and self-confessed nature nerd, Linda Jane Keegan, reviews an amazing selection of books about the world around us. Look up close at tiny creatures from land to sea, to far, far away into the night sky. These would…