The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, opens a new window are trying something new this year with an expanded Children's Choice Awards. Children in schools from around the country have been given the opportunity to select their own list of finalists for the 2015 Children's Choice Award. More than 6,500 children and young adults from 106 schools from throughout the country have selected their own finalists from the 149 books submitted for the Awards It's an awesome opportunity and something that I wish I had had the chance to do when I was at school. I think it's a great list and it's good to see the difference between the children's finalists and those of the judges.
Voting for the Children’s Choice is open now and closes on Friday, 31 July. This year there will be a winner in each category. We'll be reviewing some of finalist books and interviewing some of the finalist authors here on the blog. Go and vote for your favourite book now.
Check out the finalist list for the 2015 Children's Choice Award:
Picture Books
- I Am Not a Worm by Scott Tulloch - Scholastic NZ
- Little Red Riding Hood… Not Quite by Yvonne Morrison & Donovan Bixley - Scholastic NZ
- The Anzac Puppy by Peter Millett & Trish Bowles - Scholastic NZ
- Doggy Ditties from A to Z by Jo van Dam & Myles Lawford - Scholastic NZ
- Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas by Juliette MacIver & Sarah Davis - Scholastic NZ
Junior Fiction
- Dragon Knight: Fire! by Kyle Mewburn & Donovan Bixley - Scholastic NZ
- The Island of Lost Horses by Stacy Gregg - HarperCollins
- How I Alienated My Grandma by Suzanne Main - Scholastic NZ
- 1914 - Riding into War by Susan Brocker - Scholastic NZ
- My New Zealand Story: Canterbury Quake by Desna Wallace - Scholastic NZ
Non-fiction
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New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame: 25 Kiwi Champions by Maria Gill & Marco Ivancic - New Holland Publishers - Māori Art for Kids by Julie Noanoa & Norm Heke - Craig Potton Publishing
- The Letterbox Cat & Other Poems by Paula Green & Myles Lawford - Scholastic NZ
- A New Zealand Nature Journal by Sandra Morris - Walker Books Australia
- Waitangi Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry - New Holland Publishers
Young Adult Fiction
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I Am Rebecca by Fleur Beale - Penguin Random House NZ - Night Vision by Ella West - Allen & Unwin
- Spark by Rachael Craw - Walker Books Australia
- Awakening by Natalie King - Penguin Random House
- The Red Suitcase by Jill Harris - Makaro Press
