Esther Glen Award (Fiction) | Russell Clarke Award (Illustration) | Elsie Locke (Nonfiction | Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori
Guest Award The CBI Bisto Award Leabhar-Ghradaim are the leading annual Children's Book Awards in Ireland. 2009 winners
Australian Children's Awards | Koalas (NSW) | Bilbys (QLDS) | WAYBRA (WA) | COOL (ACT) | YABBA | Crichton Award for Illustration | Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) | Evironment Book Award | Children's Peace Literature Award
Guest Award - 20th May- New Zealand/Aetearoa's most prestigious Children and Teen Book Award has released it'swinners for 2009- and a lovely bunch they are.....
The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were originally awarded a single prize for the Picture Story Book of the Year. Over the year the awards were expanded and some categories experienced name changes.
The awards are supported by New Zealand Post and administered by Booksellers New Zealand. Awards are currently offered in the following categories: Book of the Year, Picture Book, JuniorFiction, Young Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction, Best First Book,Children's Choice Award.
The winner of each category is awarded $7500, with the winner of book of the year taking home an extra $7500.
* The winner of the best first book and the children's choice award received $2000 each.
* The honour award recipient received a monetary award of $500.
2008 | Past Winners 1996 - 2007
2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards Winners
New Zealand Post Book of the Year Winner
The 10PM Question
By Kate De Goldi
Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head: Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms? Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it? Is the Kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer? Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent queries. But it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unravelling of Frankie Parsons's carefully controlled world. More
Children's Choice Award
The Were-Nana written by Melinda Szymanik, illustrated by Sarah Nelisiwe Anderson (Scholastic New Zealand)
Simon loves to scare Stella Rosa, especially with his stories. Most of the time Stella Rosa can cope but now her grandmother, Nana Lupin, is coming to visit from a far-away country and Simon whispers that Nana Lupin is a Were-Nana ...and Stella Rosa believes him. The darkly robed figure that comes through the arrival gate at the airport does look like a Were-Nana after all...and Stella Rosa is afraid because she hasn't been given the special potion that Simon says she should have drunk to protect her!
Winner: Roadworks written by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock (Walker Books)
Plan the road. Plan the road. Mark it on the map. Hammer in the marking pegs. PING! BANG! TAP!’ So begins this energetic and rhythmic picture book that takes the reader through the various stages of making a road—from map-making through to earth-moving, tar-rolling, lighting and planting trees along the verge. There are even pages devoted |to the workmen’s lunch-time on the worksite, and the final celebrations of cars and buses driving on the road for the first time. Perfectly aimed at two-to-five-yearolds, the book caters for its younger readers with bold colourful pictures and strong onomatopoeic words that lend themselves to shouting: Squelch! Spluck! Splat! At the same time, older readers, especially boys, will love the detail of the gradually completed building project, with all its attendant machinery, road-signs and workmen in uniform. An illustrated page of machine facts completes the book, with brief descriptions of excavators, truck-mounted cranes, graders and the like. Roadworks is written by New Zealand playwright and children’s author Sally Sutton (Crazy Kiwi Tops and Tails) and illustrated by first-timer Brian Lovelock. It’s a beautifully bright and noisy book that satisfies the curiosity of children who need to know how things get made.
Honour Book: Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig written by Diana Neild, illustrated by Philip Webb (Scholastic New Zealand)
Other Finalists
Duck’s Stuck! Written by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Ali Teo and John O’Reilly (Scholastic New Zealand)
Every Second Friday written by Kiri Lightfoot, illustrated by Ben Galbraith (Hodder Children’s Books)
The Were-Nana written by Melinda Szymanik, illustrated by Sarah Nelisiwe Anderson (Scholastic New Zealand)
Non-fiction
Winner: Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & 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 Aotearoa New 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.
Other Finalists
The Crafting of Narnia: The Art, Creatures, and Weapons from Weta Workshop
by Weta Workshop, Paul Tobin and Daniel Falconer (HarperOne)
High-Tech Legs on Everest by Mark Inglis with Sarah Ell
(Random House New Zealand)
Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers by Brigid Lowry (Allen and Unwin)
Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood by Gavin Bishop (Random House New Zealand)
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Junior Fiction
Winner: Old Drumble: The Smartest Drover's Dog There Ever Was by Jack Lasenby (HarperCollins Publishers)
The humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stockdrover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the late 1930s. Jack has a wonderful warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives a mob of cattle or sheep through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble, and his horse, Nosy. All three become the boy's close friends over the long hot summer holidays, and each week Andy more.
Other Finalists
Chicken Feathers by Joy Cowley, illustrated by David Elliot (Puffin)
Enemy at the Gate by Philippa Werry (Scholastic New Zealand)
Five (and a bit) Days in the Life of Ozzie Kingsford written by Val Bird,
illustrated by Rebecca Cundy (Random House New Zealand)
Payback by Michelle Kelly (Scholastic New Zealand) { sorry, can't track this title}
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Young Adult Fiction
Winner: The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi (Longacre Press)
Chronicles of Stone #1, Scorched Bone by Vincent Ford (Scholastic New Zealand)
Gool by Maurice Gee (Puffin)
Juno of Taris by Fleur Beale (Random House New Zealand)
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner (Walker Books)
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First Book Award
Violence 101Hamish Graham is intelligent, disciplined, resourceful and fearless, and scorns all weakness. His heroes include Charles Upham, Alexander the Great and Te Rauparaha - all men of action. But he is also a fourteen-year-old with an anger problem and a disturbing past, and these have landed him in a series of boys' homes for violent and troubled young offenders. The gripping series of events following his arrival at New Horizons culminates in a desperate rescue mission on a mountain that has already claimed the lives of two young soldiers.
