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LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2014 finalists announced

10 June 2014   Books+Publishing
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The finalists in the 2014 LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) Children’s Book Awards have been announced.

The judges this year selected six finalists in the young adult fiction category.

LIANZA Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award

  • Dunger (Joy Cowley, Gecko Press)
  • Brave Company (David Hill, Penguin)
  • Project Huia (Des Hunt, Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Felix and the Red Rats (James Norcliffe, Random House New Zealand)
  • A Winter’s Day in 1939 (Melinda Szymanik, Scholastic New Zealand)

 

LIANZA Young Adult Fiction Award

  • Recon Team Angel, Book 3: Ice War (Brian Falkner, Walker Books Australia)
  • Dear Vincent (Mandy Hager, Random House New Zealand)
  • When We Wake (Karen Healey, A&U)
  • Bugs (Whiti Hereaka, Huia NZ Ltd)
  • Mortal Fire (Elizabeth Knox, Gecko Press)
  • Cattra’s Legacy (Anna Mackenzie, Random House New Zealand)

 

LIANZA Russell Clark Illustration Award

  • Bruiser and the Big Snow (Gavin Bishop, Random House New Zealand)
  • Flight of the Honey Bee (Raymond Huber, illus by Brian Lovelock, Walker Books Australia)
  • Taka Ki Ro Wai (Keri Kaa, illus by Martin D Page, National Treasures Design Ltd trading as Tania & Martin)
  • The Teddy Bear’s Promise (Diana Noonan, illus by Robyn Belton, Craig Potton Publishing)
  • Henry’s Map (David Elliot, Random House New Zealand)

 

LIANZA Elsie Locke Nonfiction Award  

  • Wearable Wonders (Fifi Colston, Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Flight of the Honey Bee (Raymond Huber, illus by Brian Lovelock, Walker Books Australia)
  • The Beginner’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing in New Zealand (Paul Adamson, Random House New Zealand)
  • Anzac Day, The New Zealand Story, What it is and why it matters (Philippa Werry, New Holland Publishers NZ)

 

LIANZA Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Māori)

  • Taka Ki Ro Wai (Keri Kaa, illus by Martin D Page, National Treasures Design Ltd trading as Tania & Martin)
  • Meariki (Helen Pearse-Otene, illus by Andrew Burdan, Huia NZ Ltd)
  • Pūao (series) Te Pātiki, Te Mānawa, Te Whai, Te Tāmure (Huia Publishers, Huia NZ Ltd)
  • Tāhoe: He Pakiwaitara mō Hinemoa rāua ko Tūtānekai (Chris Szekely & Andrew Burdan, Huia NZ Ltd)
  • Ngā Kaitiaki a Tama! (Kawata Teepa & Jim Byrt, Huia NZ Ltd).

 

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