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NZ Book Awards for Children and YA 2019 finalists announced

6 June 2019   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Picture book award

  • Mini Whinny: Happy Birthday to Me (Stacy Gregg, illus by Ruth Paul, Scholastic)
  • Puffin the Architect (Kimberly Andrews, Puffin)
  • The Bomb (Sacha Cotter, illus by Josh Morgan, Huia Publishers)
  • Things in the Sea are Touching Me (Linda Jane Keegan, illus by Minky Stapleton, Scholastic)
  • Who Stole the Rainbow? (Vasanti Unka, Puffin)

Esther Glen Award for junior fiction

  • Search for a Kiwi Killer (Des Hunt, Tōrea Press)
  • The Dog Runner (Bren MacDibble, A&U)
  • The Mapmakers’ Race (Eirlys Hunter, illus by Kirsten Slade, Gecko Press)
  • The Telegram (Philippa Werry, Pipi Press)
  • Whetū Toa and the Magician (Steph Matuku, illus by Katharine Hall, Huia Publishers)

Young Adult fiction award

  • Ash Arising (Mandy Hager, Penguin)
  • Children of the Furnace (Brin Murray, The CopyPress)
  • Invisibly Breathing (Eileen Merriman, Penguin)
  • Legacy (Whiti Hereaka, Huia Publishers)
  • The Rift (Rachael Craw, Walker Books)

Elsie Locke Award for nonfiction

  • Art-tastic (Sarah Pepperle, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū)
  • Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women (Barbara Else, Puffin)
  • Ko Mauao te Maunga: Legend of Mauao (Debbie McCauley, trans by Tamati Waaka, illus by Debbie Tipuna, Mauao Publishing)
  • New Zealand’s Backyard Beasts (Ned Barraud, Potton & Burton)
  • Whose Home is This? (Gillian Candler, illus by Fraser Williamson, Potton & Burton)

Russell Clark Award for illustration

  • Cook’s Cook: The Cook who Cooked for Captain Cook (Gavin Bishop, Gecko Press)
  • Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas (Ant Sang & Michael Bennett, Penguin)
  • Oink (David Elliot, Gecko Press)
  • Puffin the Architect (Kimberly Andrews, Puffin)
  • The Bomb (Josh Morgan, written by Sacha Cotter, Huia Publishers)

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written completely in te reo Māori

  • Ngā Whetū Matariki i Whānakotia (Miriama Kamo, trans by Ngaere Roberts, illus by Zak Waipara, Scholastic)
  • Te Haka a Tānerore (Reina Kahukiwa, illus by Robyn Kahukiwa, trans by Kiwa Hammond, Mauri Tū)
  • Te Hīnga Ake a Māui i Te Ika Whenua (Donovan Bixley, trans by Darryn Joseph & Keri Opai, Upstart Press)

Best first book award

  • Art-tastic (Sarah Pepperle, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū)
  • Bullseye Bella (James T Guthrie, Scholastic)
  • Children of the Furnace (Brin Murray, The CopyPress)
  • Slice of Heaven (Des O’Leary, Mākaro Press)
  • The Stolen Stars of Matariki (Miriama Kamo, illus by Zak Waipara, Scholastic).

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Wellington on 7 August.

The winners in each category will receive NZ$7500 (A$7125), except the best first book award winner, who receives NZ$2000 (A$1900). An additional NZ$7500 will be awarded for the overall prize, the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year. For more information, see the website.

 

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