Maurice Gee (Penguin)

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)

Deutz Medal For Fiction
Slow Water, Annamarie Jagose (Victoria University Press)

Fiction runners-up
The Scornful Moon, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
Iridescence, Peter Wells (Vintage)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, Anne Salmond (Allen Lane/Penguin Books)

Poetry
Sing-song, Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press)

History
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, Anne Salmond (Allen Lane/Penguin Books)

Biography
Mason, Rachel Barrowman (Victoria University Press)

Environment
Deep New Zealand, Peter Batson (Canterbury University Press)

Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
Classic Fly Fishing, John Kent & David Hallett (Craig Potton Publishing)

Illustrative
Central, Arno Gasteiger (Viking)

Reference & Anthology
Whetu Moana, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan (Auckland University Press)

Readers' Choice Award
The Penguin History of New Zealand, Michael King (Penguin)

Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction
Bloom, Kelly Ana Morey (Penguin)

Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
The Adulterer's Bible, Cliff Fell (Victoria University Press)

E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Tai Tokerau Whakairo Rakau, Deidre Brown (Reed Publishing)

Review Page or Programme of the Year Award
The Listener

Reviewer of the Year Award
Michael King

A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature
Joy Cowley