Anna Mackenzie

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+

Winners and Finalists 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)

Children's Choice
The King’s Bubbles, Ruth Paul (Scholastic New Zealand)

Young Adult Fiction Winner
Salt, Maurice Gee (Penguin)

Honour Award
The Sea-wreck Stranger, Anna Mackenzie (Longacre Press)

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

Picture Book Winner
Tahi – One Lucky Kiwi, Melanie Drewery, Ali Teo & John O’Reilly (Random House)

 Honour Award
To the Harbour, Stanley Palmer (Lopdell House Gallery)

Non-fiction Winner
Which New Zealand Spider? Andrew Crowe (Penguin)

Honour Award
Reaching the Summit, Alexa Johnston & David Larsen (Penguin)

Finalists

  • Salt, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
  • The Sea-wreck Stranger, Anna Mackenzie (Longacre Press)
  • Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful, Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)
  • The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves, Fleur Beale (Random House)
  • Zillah, Penelope Todd (Longacre Press)
  • Dead Dan's Dee, Phyllis Johnston (Longacre Press)
  • The Dumpster Saga, Craig Harrison (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • The Mad Tadpole Adventure, Melanie Drewery & Jenny Cooper (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • My Story: Sitting on the Fence, Bill Nagelkerke (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Snake and Lizard, Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop (Gecko Press)
  • The King’s Bubbles, Ruth Paul, (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Out of the Egg, Tina Matthews (Walker Books)
  • Rats! Gavin Bishop (Random House)
  • Tahi – One Lucky Kiwi, Melanie Drewery, Ali Teo & John O’Reilly (Random House)
  • To the Harbour, Stanley Palmer (Lopdell House Gallery)
  • A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand Land Birds, Andrew Crowe & Dave Gunson (Penguin)
  • Reaching the Summit, Alexa Johnston & David Larsen (Penguin)
  • Weather Watch New Zealand, Sandra Carrod, Karsten Schneider & Richard Gunther (Reed New Zealand)
  • What is a fish? Feana Tu'akoi (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Which New Zealand Spider? Andrew Crowe (Penguin)

NZ Post Children's Book Awards Finalists 2011

The finalists for the 2011 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced on Tuesday, 22 February.

Awards Ceremony 2008

The awards ceremony for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards was held on the evening of Wednesday 21 May at the Wellington Town Hall.

 

Enchanted Forest

The entrance to the Wellington Town Hall was transformed into an enchanted forest, complete with toadstools, fairylights and a pathway made from the jacket covers of the 2008 finalist titles.