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)