- The Sapling
And the winners of the Book Awards are ...
Freshly announced at the Awards Ceremony in Wellington, the winners of the 2018 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are ...

Pages 60-61 of Aotearoa, by Gavin Bishop
The Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and the Elsie Locke Award for Non-fiction

Aotearoa: the new zealand story Illustrated and written by Gavin Bishop
Published by Penguin Random House NZ
RRP $40.00 (hardback)
The Picture Book Award

i am jellyfish
Written and illustrated by Ruth Paul
Published by Penguin Random House NZ
RRP $20.00
Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction

How to Bee By Bren MacDibble Published by Allen & Unwin NZ
RRP $18.99
The Russell Clark Award for Illustration

Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods
By Craig Phillips
Published by Allen & Unwin Children's
RRP $27.99
The Copyright Licensing Award for Young Adult Fiction

in the dark spaces
By Cally Black
Published by Hardie Grant Egmont
RRP $23.00 (paperback)
Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Māori

TU MEKE Tūī
Written by Malcolm Clarke Illustrated by Hayley King (FLOX) Translated by Evelyn Tobin
Published by Little Love, Mary Egan Publishing
RRP $20.00 (paperback)
The Best First Book Award

my new zealand story: dawn raid
By Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith
Published by Scholastic NZ
RRP $17.99 (paperback)
#Aotearoa #Awards #NZBookAwardsforChildrenandYoungAdults #NZBookAwardsforChildrenandYoungAdults2018