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New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Winners 2011

The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at an Awards Ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday evening, 18 May 2011.

Canterbury literary legend, Margaret Mahy and internationally-recognised Dunedin illustrator, David Elliot, have won the country’s most prestigious gong for children’s literature, The New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award for their picture book, The Moon & Farmer McPhee.

Nikki Kaye, the Member of Parliament for Auckland Central was the keynote speaker for the awards, which saw 11 books take home titles. The full list of winners are... 

Picture Book Category Award Winner and New Zealand Post Book of the Year
The Moon & Farmer McPhee
Margaret Mahy & David Elliot
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-406-4 hb RRP $36.99
Target age 4+

Non-fiction Category Award Winner

Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front
Leon Davidson
Text Publishing Company
ISBN 978-1-92165-607-1 pb RRP $25.00
Target age 13+

Junior Fiction Category Award Winner

Finnigan & the Pirates
Sherryl Jordan
Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86943-927-9 pb RRP $19.50
Target age 7+

Young Adult Fiction Category Award Winner

Fierce September
Fleur Beale
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-328-9 pb RRP $19.99
Target age 12+

Best First Book Award

Best First Book Award Winner

Hollie Chips
Anna Gowan
Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86943-931-6 pb RRP $18.50
Target age 8+

Children's Choice Awards

Children’s Choice Award Winner - Overall winner and Children's Choice Picture Book Category Winner

Baa Baa Smart Sheep
Mark Sommerset & Rowan Sommerset
Dreamboat Books
ISBN 978-0-9864668-1-6 hb RRP $29.99
Target age 3+

Children's Choice Award Non-fiction Category

Who's Cooking Tonight?

Claire Gourley & Glenda Gourley
Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 978-0-14320-542-5 pb RRP $36.00
Target age 12+

Children's Choice Award Junior Fiction Category

Hollie Chips
Anna Gowan
Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86943-931-6 pb RRP $18.50
Target age 8+

Children's Choice Award Young Adult Category

Smiling Jack
Ken Catran
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 978-1-86950-812-8 pb RRP $23.50
Target age 12+

Nielsen 2011 Bestsellers List

The 2011 Bestseller Chart is compiled by Nielsen BookScan and covers the period 1 January - 10 December 2010.

Information supplied by Nielsen BookScan © 2011 Confidential & Proprietary.
For information regarding bestsellers data in New Zealand please contact Nielsen Book Services.
 

Winners and Finalists 2006

Book of the Year
Hunter, Joy Cowley (Puffin)

Children's Choice
Nobody's Dog, Jennifer Beck and Lindy Fisher (Scholastic New Zealand)

Best First Book
The Unknown Zone, Phil Smith (Random House New Zealand)

Young Adult Fiction Winner
With Lots of Love from Georgia, Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)

Honour Award
Kaitangata Twitch, Margaret Mahy (Allen & Unwin)

Junior Fiction Winner
Hunter, Joy Cowley (Puffin)

Honour Award
Sil, Jill Harris (Longacre Press)

Picture Book Winner
A Booming in the Night, Ben Brown and Helen Taylor (Reed Publishing)

Honour Award
Haere - Farewell, Jack, Farewell, Tim Tipene and Huhana Smith (Huia Publishers)

Non Fiction Winner
Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli, Leon Davidson (Black Dog Books)

Honour Award
Blue New Zealand, Glenys Stace (Penguin New Zealand)

Finalists

  • Deep Fried, Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press)
  • Kaitangata Twitch, Margaret Mahy (Allen & Unwin)
  • Running Hot, David Hill (Mallinson Rendel)
  • The Unknown Zone, Phil Smith (Random House)
  • With Lots of Love from Georgia, Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)
  • Hunter, Joy Cowley (Puffin)
  • Maddigan's Fantasia, Margaret Mahy (HarperCollins)
  • Maddigan's Quest (TV tie-in), Margaret Mahy (HarperCollins)
  • My Story: Chinatown Girl, Eva Wong Ng (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Sil, Jil Harris (Longacre Press)
  • Super Freak, Brian Falkner (Mallinson Rendel)
  • A Booming in the Night, Ben Brown & Helen Taylor (Reed Publishing)
  • Haere - Farewell, Jack, Farewell, Tim Tipene & Huhana Smith (Huia Publishers)
  • Nobody's Dog, Jennifer Beck & Lindy Fisher (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • The Waka/ Te Waka, Katerina Te Keikoko Mataira, Jean Prior & Gavin Bishop (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Where's the Gold? Pamela Allen (Penguin Viking)
  • Blue New Zealand, Glenys Stace (Puffin)
  • Cameras in Narnia, Ian Brodie (HarperCollins)
  • Frontier of Dreams: The Weight of World Wars 1897-1949, John Parker (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Peter Blake Sailor, Adventurer, Alan Sefton (Puffin)
  • Scarecrow Army, Leon Davidson (Black Dog Books)

Winners and Finalists 2007

Book of the Year
Illustrated History of the South Pacific, Marcia Stenson (Random House New Zealand)

Best First Book
The Three Fishing Brothers Gruff, Ben Galbraith (Hodder Children's Books)

Children's Choice
Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo, John O'Reilly (Scholastic New Zealand)

Young Adult Fiction Winner
Genesis, Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press)

Junior Fiction Winner
Thor's Tale, Janice Marriott (HarperCollins Publishers)

Picture Book Winner
Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo, John O'Reilly (Scholastic New Zealand)

Non Fiction Winner
Illustrated History of the South Pacific, Marcia Stenson (Random House New Zealand)

Finalists

  • Genesis, Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press)
  • A Respectable Girl, Fleur Beale (Random House)
  • Shooting the Moon, VM Jones (HarperCollins)
  • Single Fin, Aaron Topp (Random House)
  • Thieves, Ella West (Longacre Press)
  • And Did Those Feet... Ted Dawe (Longacre Press)
  • Boyznbikes, Vince Ford (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Frog Whistle Mine, Des Hunt (HarperCollins)
  • My Story: Castaway, Bill O'Brien (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Thor's Tale: Endurance and Adventure in the Southern Ocean, Janice Marriott (HarperCollins)
  • Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo & John O'Reilly (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Matatuhi, Robyn Kahukiwa (Puffin)
  • A Present from the Past, Jennifer Beck & Lindy Fisher (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Riding the Waves/ Whakaeke i nga ngaru, Gavin Bishop & Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira (Random House)
  • The Three Fishing Brothers Gruff, Ben Galbraith (Hodder Children's Books)
  • Illustrated History of the South Pacific, Marcia Stenson (Random House)
  • It's True! You Can Make Your Own Jokes, Sharon Holt & Ross Kinnaird (Allen & Unwin)
  • Red Haze: Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam, Leon Davidson (Black Dog Books)
  • Soldier in the Yellow Socks: Charles Upham, Our Finest Fighting Soldier, Janice Mariott (HarperCollins)
  • Winging It! The Adventures of Tim Wallis, Neville Peat (Longacre Press)

2009 Finalist Books

Picture Book Finalists