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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Winners of NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2012


New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year

Nice Day for a War by Matt Elliott and illustrated by Chris Slane (HarperCollins Publishers)

Children’s Choice Award

The Cat’s Pyjamas by Catherine Foreman (Scholastic New Zealand)

Best First Book Award -

Super Finn by Leonie Agnew  - (Scholastic New Zealand)

Picture Book category

Rāhui (Maori version) by Chris Szekely translated by Brian Morris and illustrated by Malcolm Ross (Huia Publishers)

Rāhui (English version) by Chris Szekely and illustrated by Malcolm Ross (Huia Publishers)

 
Honour Award

Shaolin Burning by Ant Sang (HarperCollins Publishers)

Non-Fiction category

Nice Day for a War by Matt Elliott and illustrated by Chris Slane (HarperCollins Publishers)

Honour Award

Digging Up The Past: Archaeology For The Young & Curious by David Veart (Auckland University Press)

Junior Fiction category

Super Finn by Leonie Agnew (Scholastic New Zealand)

Honour Award

The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else (Gecko Press)

Young Adult Fiction category

Calling the Gods by Jack Lasenby - (HarperCollins Publishers)

Honour Award

The Bridge by Jane Higgins (Text Publishing Company)

 
Each Category Award winner received $7,500. The winner of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award took home an extra $7,500. The winner of the Best First Book Award and the Children’s Choice Award received prize money of $2,000 each.

 
Each Honour Award recipient received $500. Honour Awards are discretionary and are awarded in recognition of particular features in a book.

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