NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
The winners of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced in a virtual presentation on Wednesday 12 August.
And the winners are:
Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award
Mophead, Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press)
Picture Book Award
Abigail and the Birth of the Sun - Matthew Cunningham, illustrated by Sarah Wilkins (Penguin Random House)
Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction
Lizard's Tale, Weng Wai Chan (Text Publishing)
Young Adult Fiction Award
Aspiring, Damien Wilkins (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)
Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
Mophead, Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press)
Russell Clark Award for Illustration
The Adventures of Tupaia, Courtney Sina Meredith, illustrated by Mat Tait (Allen & Unwin, in partnership with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum)
Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for te reo Māori
Tio Tiamu, Kurahau, illustrated by Laya Mutton-Rogers (Huia Publishers)
Best First Book Award
Michael Petherick for #Tumeke! (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)
The shortlist for the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young adults.
Picture Book Award
- Abigail and the Birth of the Sun - Matthew Cunningham, illustrated by Sarah Wilkins (Penguin Random House)
- How Māui Slowed the Sun, written and illustrated by Donovan Bixley (advised and translated by Dr Darryn Joseph and Keri Opai) (Upstart Press)
- Mini Whinny: Goody Four Shoes, Stacy Gregg, illustrated by Ruth Paul (Scholastic NZ)
- Santa's Worst Christmas, Pania Tahau-Hodges and Bryony Walker, illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Huia Publishers)
- The Gobbledegook Book, Joy Cowley, illustrated by Giselle Clarkson (Gecko Press)
Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction
- #Tumeke!, Michael Petherick (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)
- Lizard's Tale, Weng Wai Chan (Text Publishing)
- Miniwings: Moonlight the Unicorn's High Tea Hiccup, Sally Sutton, illustrated by Kirsten Richards (Scholastic NZ)
- Prince of Ponies, Stacy Gregg (HarperCollins Publishers)
- Time Machine and other stories, Melinda Szymanik (The Cuba Press)
Young Adult Fiction Award
- Afakasi woman, Lani Wendt Young (OneTree House)
- Aspiring, Damien Wilkins (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)
- The History Speech, Mark Sweet (Huia Publishers)
- Ursa, Tina Shaw (Walker Books Australia)
- Wynter’s Thief, Sherryl Jordan (OneTree House)
Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
- Kuwi & Friends Māori Picture Dictionary, written and illustrated by Kat Quin, translated by Pānia Papa (Illustrated Publishing)
- Mophead, Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press)
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, Ross Calman and Mark Derby, illustrated by Toby Morris, translated by Piripi Walker (Lift Education)
- The Adventures of Tupaia, Courtney Sina Meredith, illustrated by Mat Tait (Allen & Unwin, in partnership with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum)
- Three Kiwi Tales, Janet Hunt (Massey University Press)
Russell Clark Award for Illustration
- Dozer the Fire Cat, illustrated by Jenny Cooper, written by Robyn Prokop (Scholastic NZ)
- Santa's Worst Christmas, Pania Tahau-Hodges and Bryony Walker, illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Huia Publishers)
- Song of the River, illustrated by Kimberly Andrews, written by Joy Cowley (Gecko Press)
- The Adventures of Tupaia, Courtney Sina Meredith, illustrated by Mat Tait (Allen & Unwin, in partnership with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum)
- Wildlife of Aotearoa, illustrated and written by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House)
Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written in te reo Māori
- Arapū Toi, Moira Wairama, illustrated by Austin Whincup (Baggage Books) - On order.
- Ko Flit, te Tīrairaka, me ngā Hēki Muna, written and illustrated by Kat Quin, translated by Ngaere Roberts (Scholastic NZ)
- Ngā Hoa Hoihoi o Kuwi,written and illustrated by Kat Quin, translated by Pānia Papa (Illustrated Publishing) - On order.
- Te Kirihimete i Whakakorea, Pania Tahau-Hodges and Bryony Walker, illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White, translated by Kawata Teepa (Huia Publishers)
- Tio Tiamu, Kurahau, illustrated by Laya Mutton-Rogers (Huia Publishers)
Best First Book Award
- Michael Petherick for #Tumeke! (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)
- Weng Wai Chan for Lizard's Tale (Text Publishing)
- Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (illustrator) for Santa's Worst Christmas, written by Pania Tahau-Hodges and Bryony Walker (Huia Publishers)
- Belinda O'Keefe for The Day the Plants Fought Back, illustrated by Richard Hoit (Scholastic NZ)
- Laya Mutton-Rogers (illustrator) for The Smelly Giant, written by Kurahau (Huia Publishers)
