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Big Names Feature On National Children’s Book Award Shortlist
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 7:30 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The shortlist highlights the best books for young readers, with picture books that entertain, junior fiction novels that offer escapism, young adult fiction that doesn’t shy away from the complexity of the teenage experience, non fiction that expands ... More >>
Bilingual Pukapuka Takes Top Prize At Children’s Book Awards For The First Time
Friday, 11 August 2023, 7:32 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
10 August For the first time a bilingual book has taken out the top prize at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Te Wehenga: The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku by Mat Tait (Ngāti Apa ki te rātō) was tonight presented ... More >>
Making Reading Fun Is The Key To Improving Literacy For NZ Kids
Monday, 10 April 2023, 7:21 pm | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Inspiring kids to read for pleasure is just as important as ensuring they can read, and some of New Zealand’s leading literary advocates are calling for a greater focus on reading for enjoyment as education takes the spotlight. Alan Dingley is More >>
Record-breaking Number Of Entries For Children’s Book Awards Produce Strong Shortlist
Thursday, 2 June 2022, 6:43 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults attracted a record-breaking 199 entries, with 28 titles announced today as finalists. This is the highest number of submissions ever received for the Awards, which are the preeminent celebration ... More >>
A Book Woven With Māori Mythology Wins Top Prize At Children’s Awards
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 5:47 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Tania Roxborogh winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award_Credit Book Awards Trust A disabled Māori boy who meets a mermaid on the beach won over the hearts of the judges at this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. ... More >>
Children’s Book Awards Shortlist Gives Credit To Young Readers’ Emotional Intelligence
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 6:37 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nation’s young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with ... More >>
Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh Wins Book Of The Year At Children’s Awards
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 7:04 pm | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Selina Tusitala Marsh Former New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children has been judged the supreme winner at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Mophead was awarded the highest prize ... More >>
Awards Shortlist Packed With Books That Offer Kiwi Children The Escape Of Stories
Thursday, 4 June 2020, 9:37 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
If ever there was a time that children needed the escape of stories, 2020 is it. Today’s announcement of this year’s finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults showcases an abundance of incredible storytelling for ... More >>
Stubbornness Took Quirky Author to Victory
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 10:33 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Ten years of hard work, a truckload of stubborness and a sympathetic press helped take fledgling author Julie Lamb to victory at the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The Discombobulated Life of Summer Rain won Lamb the brand-new Best ... More >>
Otago Author David Elliot Wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 9:44 am | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Otago Author, David Elliot, wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year - Winner of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults announced tonight More >>
CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS - FINALISTS ANNOUNCED TODAY
Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 12:13 pm | NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
“Characters burst off the pages, delighting us at every turn,” say the judges of this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. They have selected 35 finalists for the 2017 awards. More >>
