Previous Years

2009 Winners Announced

28 Sep 2009

Kate De Goldi has won the country’s highest accolade in children’s and young adult writing: the 2009 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for her novel, The 10pm Question (published by Longacre Press).

De Goldi Wins Children’s Book of the Year, No Question About It

Winners & Finalists 1997-1999

20 Aug 2009

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NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 1999

Book of the Year

A Summery Saturday Morning, Margaret Mahy (Penguin)

Best First Book

Footsteps of the Gods, Hana Hiraina Erlbeck (Reed).

Winners & Finalists 2000-2002

20 Aug 2009

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NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2002

Book of the Year

The Plight of the Penguin, Lloyd Spencer Davis (Longacre Press).

Children's Choice

Grandpa's Shorts, Joy Watson and Wendy Hodder (Scholastic New Zealand)

Winners & Finalists 2006-2008

20 Aug 2009

Quick Links: 2006, 2007, 2008

NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2008

Book of the Year

Snake and Lizard, Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop (Gecko Press)

Best First Book

Out of the Egg, Tina Matthews (Walker Books)

Winners & Finalists 2003-2005

19 Aug 2009

Quick links: 2003, 2004, 2005

NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2005

Book of the Year

Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story, Kate De Goldi and Jacqui Colley (Trapeze)

Children's Choice

The Other Ark, Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel)