This month’s instalment of the Mahy Questionnaire features award-winning illustrator Sarah Wilkins! Sarah does editorial, educational, and promotional art in addition to illustrating children’s books. Her most recent picture book, the beautiful Abigail and the Restless RaiMatndrop, is out now!…
Here’s a fresh and delicious selection of top bookseller picks, straight from the team at The Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch! There’s something for all kinds of reading ages here, so read on to discover some surprising suggestions… There’s nothing better…
As part of our coverage for the NZ Book Awards, we asked the publishers of the junior fiction finalists what it was about these particular stories that caught their imaginations, and why they seemed right for this format. These are…
The final announcement of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults is less than a month away, and we’ve been doing a fair bit of coverage of the finalists here on The Sapling. But have you…
Bob Darroch is known New Zealand-wide for his depiction of bedtime favourite The Little Kiwi, but for this book he has taken a swerve into the bush, to the humble longdrop. The Longdrop is published by Oratia Books. .
As part of our coverage of this year’s NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we’ve asked the authors of the young adult fiction finalists to explain the story behind their respective stories, and why they had to be…
It seems only right that the review for the picture book finalists for NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults should be illustrated! We asked accomplished comic artist Tara Black to review all five finalists. Here, in pictures, are…
The rising of Matariki is just around the corner and councils, schools and organisations around the country are celebrating the occasion in all kinds of ways. But if you can’t get out to a Matariki event (whether it’s kapa haka,…
Amy Haarhoff won the 2019 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award, and The Midnight Adventures of Ruru and Kiwi was published in April 2020. Her illustration hero is Quentin Blake, and thinks his collaboration with Roald Dahl ‘was probably one of the…
Our next top bookseller picks comes from the delightful little corner of Nelson that is VOLUME. Stella Chrysostomou and Thomas Koed have picked out a few favourite titles for a range of ages that speak to the idea of being…