LIANZA ELSIE LOCKE AWARD
Awarded annually for the work which makes a distinguished contribution to non-fiction for young people and which has been published in the previous year. A medal and $1000.00 are awarded to the winner.
The Elsie Locke Award shall be awarded for a work that is considered to be a distinguished contribution to non-fiction for young people. The recipient(s) of the Award shall be a citizen or resident of New Zealand and must have been published in the preceding calendar year. No reprint or new edition of a work will be eligible for the Award but a substantially revised edition may be considered.
A medal and $1000.00 are awarded to the winner.Established in 1986
2009 Lianza Elsie Locke Shortlist
Atoms, dinosaurs & DNA by Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley (Random House New Zealand)
From Joseph Banks to Ernest Rutherford and Beatrice Tinsley to Ingrid Visser, Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA profiles 68 of New Zealand's most remarkable scientists. Among them are some of the earliest explorers and collectors, the first professional scientists, twentieth-century pioneers in emerging scientific disciplines and some of today's leading scientists who are continuing to make discoveries about our world and working to shape our future. Whether they measure the universe or the atom, work with whales or microbes, explore some of the world's most inhospitable places or persevere against all odds to discover the last survivors of a species considered extinct, each of the scientists profiled in this book is driven by a passion for their discipline and a desire to better understand the world around us. By presenting the life and work of each scientist in chronological sequence, this book also charts the history of science in
Juicy Writing by Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)
Being a writer has it's highs and lows, from being paid to make up stuff and work in your pyjamas, to the loneliness of sitting by yourself in your study for hours. However, despite the lows, Brigid Lowry still thinks it's a joy and gives practical advice on creative writing, especially for teenagers. More than just a 'how to' book for young writers, Juicy Writing speaks directly to young people and inspires them to have courage, be themselves and explore their creativity. It's a book to relish, to dip into, to read on the train, to lend to a friend. It will bring out the best in you. More
Piano Rock by Gavin Bishop (Random House New Zealand)
This is a memoir of Gavin Bishop's idyllic childhood days, growing up in Kingston beside gorgeous Lake Wakatipu. It's a gentle tale of a boyhood spent haring around outside, building huts, eating griddle scones, catching eels, watching the train, eating roast mutton, going to school on a horse, arguing with your best mate, eating marmite sandwiches, Guy Fawkes Day - and lots more eating. It's an elegantly written story but it's the illustrations that are the real star of this book. Using two different techniques, Gavin has created both colour and black and white illustrations that bring the story to life and give a great sense of nostalgia to it. This also includes a glossary that explains things like box brownie, tilly lamp, coronation, mutton birds, melting moments and brylcreem. More
High-tech Legs on Everest by Mark Inglis with Sarah Ell (Random House New Zealand)
On 15 May 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis fulfilled a childhood ambition - to stand on the top of the highest mountain in the world. HIGH-TECH LEGS ON EVEREST tells the stoy of how he got there, and then the equally gripping tale of how he got back down again. There are plenty of illustrations and boxed material to enliven the pages of a story that is already colourful.
Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious by Gregory O’Brien (Auckland University Press)
A painting can take you to many places. It can take you around the world, or it can take you around the country, city or neighbourhood you live in. It can also transport you back into the distant past of myths, legends and ancient history - or it can take you way into the future. Since Maori first drew moa and mythical birds on cave walls, artists in AotearoaNew Zealand have provided an imaginative, lively account of the lives locals have been leading, the dreams they've been dreaming and the stories they've been telling. Alongside works painted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book features art by contemporary painters and printmakers, all of them seasoned travellers across time and space. Angels, rugby players, whales, kiwi and canoes, moa and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird's-eye view of New Zealand painting. "Back and Beyond" is alive with real and imagined encounters, with mysteries and discoveries, and with many of the paintings that have, over the past few hundred years, broadened the horizons of the citizens, young and old, of the shaky isles.
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Past Recipients
| 1987 | Olive and Ngaio Hill Gaijin: foreign children in Japan |
| 1989 | Clair Patterson It's OK to be you |
| 1990 | Deborah Furley The web: the triumph of a New Zealand girl over anorexia. |
| 1991 | John Reid Model boats that really go. |
| 1992 | Peter Garland The Damselfly |
| 1993 | Kim Westerskov Albatross Adventure |
| 1994 | Robyn Kahukiwa Paikea |
| 1995 | Barbara Cairns and Helen Martin Shadows on the wall |
| 1996 | Laura Ranger Laura's Poems |
| 1997 | Diane Noonan and Nic Bishop I Spy Wildlife: the Field |
| 1998 | Andrew Crowe The Life-Size guide to Native Trees and Other Common Plants in New Zealand's native forest |
| 2001 | Brian Parkinson The tuatara |
Previously known as the LIANZA Young Person's Non-Fiction Award
| 2002 | Dr Simon Pollard I am a Spider |
| 2003 | Andrew Crowe Which NZ insect? |
| 2004 | Janet Hunt A Bird in the Hand: Keeping New Zealand Wildlife Safe |
| 2005 | Gegory O'Brien Welcome to the South Seas: contemproary New Zealand art for young people |
| 2006 |
Kevin Boon Developments in New Zealand History |
| 2007 | Leon Davidson Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam |
| 2008 | Heather Arnold Draw New Zealand Birds |
