Congratulations to all the people whose names
appear below. These lists have gratifying appeared all over the media since
they were announced yesterday but just in case you missed seeing them – here
they are again. I have ‘lifted’ this information from emails from Adrienne Olsen
Adroite Communications.
Children’s Book Awards 2015
And the finalists for the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards
for Children and Young Adults are:
PICTURE BOOKS
Construction, Sally
Sutton and Brian Lovelock, Walker Books Australia
I Am Not a Worm, Scott
Tulloch, Scholastic New Zealand
Jim’s Letters, Glyn
Harper and Jenny Cooper, Penguin Random House
Keys, Sasha Cotter and Joshua Morgan, Huia
Publishers
Little Red Riding Hood . .
. Not Quite, Yvonne Morrison and Donovan Bixley, Scholastic New
Zealand
Ghoulish Get-Ups: How to
Create Your Own Freaky Costumes, Fifi Colston, Scholastic New Zealand
Māori Art for Kids, Julie
Noanoa and Norm Heke, Craig Potton Publishing
Mōtītī Blue and the Oil
Spill, Debbie McCauley and Sarah Elworthy, Mauao Publishing
The Book of Hat,
Harriet Rowland, Makaro Press/Submarine
Under the Ocean: explore
& discover New Zealand’s sea life, Gillian Candler and Ned
Barraud, Craig Potton Publishing
JUNIOR
FICTION
Conrad Cooper’s Last Stand,
Leonie Agnew, Penguin Random House/Puffin
Dragon Knight: Fire!, Kyle
Mewburn and Donovan Bixley, Scholastic New Zealand
Monkey Boy, Donovan
Bixley, Scholastic New Zealand
The Island of Lost Horses, Stacy
Gregg, HarperCollins
The Pirates and the
Nightmaker, James Norcliffe, Penguin Random House/ Longacre Child
YOUNG
ADULTS
I Am Rebecca, Fleur
Beale, Penguin Random House
Night Vision, Ella
West, Allen & Unwin
Recon Team Angel:
Vengeance, Brian Falkner, Walker Books Australia
Singing Home the Whale, Mandy
Hager, Penguin Random House
While We Run, Karen
Healey, Allen & Unwin
MĀORI
LANGUAGE AWARD
Hoiho Paku, Stephanie
Thatcher and Ngaere Roberts, Scholastic New Zealand
A Finalist Authors’ Tour will run from 3-7
August nationwide, with authors appearing in bookshops, libraries and schools.
CHILDREN’S CHOICE
Children’s
choices rule in the newly revamped Children’s Choice Awards in 2015. This year,
more than 6,500 children and young adults from 106 schools from throughout the
country have selected their own finalists from the 149 books submitted for the
Awards. In previous years, the Children’s Choice was made from the judges’
finalist list, rather than from the full number of submitted books. Nicola Legat, chair of the New Zealand Book Awards
Trust, says, ”We wanted to hand this section over to the children – for them to
decide which books they engaged with and which books they loved, rather than
making their choices based on the criteria the judges used to make their
decisions. Of the 20 books chosen as Children’s Choice finalists, seven match
those on the judges’ list, so we’re very much looking forward to seeing the
results of round two of the children’s vote over the next seven weeks. Voting for the Children’s Choice opens on Tuesday, 9
June and closes on Friday, 31 July. This year there will be a winner in each
category.
Picture Books
I am not a Worm, by Scott Tulloch, Scholastic NZ
Little Red Riding Hood ….Not Quite, by Yvonne Morrison & Donovan Bixley,
Scholastic NZ
The Anzac Puppy, by Peter Millett & Trish Bowles,
Scholastic NZ
Doggy Ditties from A to Z, by Jo van Dam & Myles Lawford,
Scholastic NZ
Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas, by Juliette MacIver & Sarah Davis,
Scholastic NZ
Junior Fiction
Dragon Knight: Fire!, by Kyle
Mewburn & Donovan Bixley, Scholastic NZ
The Island of
Lost Horses, by Stacy Gregg, HarperCollins
How I Alienated My Grandma, by Suzanne Main, Scholastic NZ
1914 - Riding into War, by Susan Brocker, Scholastic NZ
My New Zealand Story: Canterbury Quake, Desna Wallace, Scholastic NZ
Non-fiction
New Zealand
Sports Hall of Fame: 25 Kiwi Champions, by Maria
Gill & Marco Ivancic, New Holland Publishers
The Letterbox Cat & other poems, by Paula
Green & Myles Lawford, Scholastic NZ
A New Zealand Nature Journal, by Sandra
Morris, Walker Books Australia
Waitangi Day:
The New Zealand Story, by Philippa
Werry, New Holland
Publishers
Young Adult Fiction
I Am Rebecca, by Fleur Beale, Penguin Random
House NZ
Night Vision, by Ella West, Allen & Unwin
Spark, by Rachael Craw, Walker
Books Australia
Awakening, by Natalie King, Penguin
Random House
The Red
Suitcase, by Jill Harris, Makaro Press
The New
Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are organised by the New
Zealand Book Awards Trust, administered by Booksellers NZ. The Awards are
sponsored by Creative NZ, Book Tokens Ltd, Copyright Licensing Limited New
Zealand and Nielsen Book Services. Publishers have also supported the awards
this year.
The winners
will be announced on the evening of Thursday, 13 August at Government House in
Wellington.
More
information from
No comments:
Post a Comment