Brigid Lowry

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)

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)

Picture Book Finalists

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.

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.