Last night was one of the most important dates on the New Zealand children's literature calendar: the night when the winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for 2015 were announced and celebrated.
We are thrilled to join in congratulating these great authors and their fantastic books:
Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and Young Adult Book Award
Singing home the whale by Mandy Hager
Picture Book Award
Jim’s letters by Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper
Junior Fiction Award
Monkey boy by Donovan Bixley
Non-Fiction Award
Mōtītī Blue and the oil spill by Debbie McCauley
Best First Book
Māori art for kids by Julie Noanoa and Norm Heke
Maori Language Award
Ngā kī Sacha Cotter and Joshua Morgan, translated by Kawata Teepa
Children’s Choice Award Winners
This year children were given the opportunity to choose the finalists as well as casting the vote for the winners. Nearly 16,000 votes were cast and these are the winners:
Picture Book
The Anzac puppy by Peter Millett & Trish Bowles
Junior Fiction
The island of lost horses by Stacy Gregg
Non-Fiction
The letterbox cat & other poems by Paula Green & Myles Lawford
Young Adult Fiction
Night vision by Ella West
Have you read any of these books? Do you agree with the judges' choices?
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