Freshly announced at the Awards Ceremony in Wellington, the winners of the 2017 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are …
The Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration
SNARK
Illustrated and written (after Lewis Carroll) by David Elliot
Published by Otago University Press
RRP $59.99 (hardback)
The Picture Book Award
That’s Not a Hippopotamus
By Juliette MacIver
Illustrated by Sarah Davis
Published by Gecko Press
RRP $29.99 (hardback), $19.99 (paperback)
The Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction
My NZ STORY: Bastion point
By Tania Roxborogh
Published by Scholastic NZ
RRP $17.99
The Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
Jack and Charlie: Boys of the Bush
By Josh and Jack Marcotte
Published by Penguin Random House
RRP $37.00
The Copyright Licensing Award for Young Adult Fiction
The Severed Land
By Maurice Gee
Published by Penguin Random House
RRP $19.99 (paperback)
Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Māori
TE KAIHANGA MĀPERE
By Sacha Cotter
Illustrated by Josh Morgan
Translated by Kawata Teepa
Published by Huia Publishers
RRP $20.00 (paperback)
The Best First Book Award
The Discombobulated Life of Summer Rain
By Julie Lamb
Published by Mākaro Press
RRP $25.00 (paperback)