Glenys Stace

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
Dare Truth or Promise, Paula Boock (Longacre Press)

Best First Book
Trapped, Judy Knox (Scholastic)

Children's Choice Award
Alphabet Apartments, Lesley Moyes (Mallinson Rendel)

Senior Fiction
Dare Truth or Promise, Paula Boock (Longacre Press)

Junior Fiction
Ticket to the Sky Dance, Joy Cowley (Penguin)

Picture Book
Alphabet Apartments, Lesley Moyes (Mallinson Rendel)

Non Fiction
The Know, Sow & Grow Kids' Book of Plants, Diana Noonan & Keith Olsen (Bridge Hill Publishing)

Finalists

• Dare Truth or Promise, Paula Boock (Longacre Press)
• Love, Charlie Mike, Kate De Goldi (Penguin Books)
• Because We Were The Travellers, Jack Lasenby (Longacre Press)
• Summer of Shadows, Iona McNaughton (Scholastic New Zealand)
• The Whole of the Moon, Duncan Stuart (Longacre Press)

• The Shearwater Bell, Margaret Beames (Scholastic New Zealand)
• The Dragonslayer's Apprentice, David Calder (Scholastic New Zealand)
• Ticket to the Sky Dance, Joy Cowley (Penguin Books)
• Fat, Four-eyed and Useless, David Hill (Scholastic New Zealand)
• Trapped, Judy Knox (Scholastic New Zealand)

• Hairy Maclary, Sit, Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel)
• Alphabet Apartments, Lesley Moyes (Mallinson Rendel)
• Tane Steals the Show/ Tane Te Whetu o te Ra, Lino Nelisi & Gus Hunter (Scholastic New Zealand)
• The Sandman/ He Tangata Kirikiri, Esther Tamehana & Kerry Gemmill (Huia Publishers)
• Midnight at the Museum, Richard & Pamela Wolfe (Scholastic New Zealand)

• Hoki: The Story of a Kakapo, Gideon Climo & Alison Ballance & Jo Ogier (Godwit)
• The Life-size Guide to Native Trees, Andrew Crowe (Penguin Books)
• The Know, Sow & Grow Kids' Book of Plants, Diana Noonan & Keith Olsen (Bridge Hill Publishing)
• What's on the Beach, Glenys Stace, Jenny & Tony Enderby (Penguin Books)
• Emperors of the Ice, Kim Westerskov (Omnibus Books)

Book of the Year
A Summery Saturday Morning, Margaret Mahy (Penguin)

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

Children's Choice
The Life-Size Inflatable Whale, Gaelyn Gordon & John Tarlton (Scholastic)

Senior Fiction
Taur, Jack Lasenby (Longacre Press)

Junior Fiction
Starbright and the Dream Eater, Joy Cowley (Penguin)

Picture Book
A Summery Saturday Morning, Margaret Mahy (Penguin)

Non Fiction
The Natural World of New Zealand, Gerard Hutching (Penguin)

Finalists

• Orchard Street, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)
• Dog Breath and Other Stories, Norman Bilbrough (Mallinson Rendel)
• Taur, Jack Lasenby (Longacre Press)
• I am not Esther, Fleur Beale (Longacre Press)
• Leaving One-Foot Island, Graeme Lay (Mallinson Rendel)

• The Wild West Gang, Joy Cowley (HarperCollins)
• Strange Tales from the Mall, Bob Kerr (Mallinson Rendel)
• Starbright and the Dream Eater, Joy Cowley (Penguin Books)
• Give It Hoops, David Hill (Scholastic New Zealand)
• Killer Moves, Denis Edwards (Scholastic New Zealand)

• The Life-sized Inflatable Whale, Gaewyn Gordon & John Tarlton (Scholastic New Zealand)
• Hinepukohurangi, Hirini Melbourne & Manu Smith (Learning Media)
• Te Tautoko 35, Katerina Mataira & Gus Hunter (Learning Media)
• Slinki Malinki Catflaps, Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel)
• A Summery Saturday Morning, Margaret Mahy & Selina Young (Penguin Books)

• The Natural World of New Zealand, Gerard Hutching (Penguin Books)
• All Sorts of Trucks, Pauline Cartwright & Tim Hawkins (Bridge Hill Publishing)
• The Naming of the Land, Ron Bacon & Manu Smith (Waiatarua Publishing)
• Nature's Alphabet, Andrew Crowe & Dave Gunson (Penguin Books)
• What's Around the Rocks, Glenys Stace & Jenny & Tony Enderby (Penguin Books)