NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2013

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Here are the winners for the 2013 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards announced at the Addington Events Centre in Christchurch last night (24.6.13)

NEW ZEALAND POST MARGARET MAHY BOOK OF THE YEAR &

YOUNG ADULT FICTION AWARD

Into the River
Ted Dawe
Mangakino University Press
ISBN 978 0 4732 0508 9

(note:  this book is aimed at mature young adult readers and contains some explicit material).

                                                 NON-FICTION AWARD

100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa
 Simon Morton & Riria Hotere
Te Papa Press
ISBN 978 1 8773 8579 7

                                                 JUNIOR FICTION AWARD

My Brother's War
David Hill
Penguin Group NZ
ISBN 978 0 1433 0717 4 (paperback)
ISBN 978 1 7425 3265 3 (e-book)

HONOUR AWARD, JUNIOR FICTION

The Queen and the Nobody Boy: A Tale of Fontania series

Barbara Else

Gecko Press
ISBN 978 1 8775 7949 3

                                              PICTURE BOOK AWARD

Mister Whistler
 Margaret Mahy & Gavin Bishop
Gecko Press
ISBN 978 1 8774 6792 9

BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD

Reach
Hugh Brown
HarperCollins
ISBN 978 1 8695 0956 9

        CHILDREN’S CHOICE AWARD

Melu 
Kyle Mewburn

Scholastic  NZ
ISBN 978 1 7754 3027 8

Sadly for me the storm on Friday last week meant my planned trip to Christchurch (on the Cook Strait ferry) was delayed and delayed and then my sailing was cancelled so reluctantly I abandoned the whole plan to attend the ceremony. However, luckily for me, Fleur Beale had arranged a gathering of Wellington children’s writers at her home out at Island Bay.  Thanks to Fifi Colston who texted the announcements as they were made and to the excellent Booksellers’ Facebook page, we were kept absolutely up with the play.

 

Here we are on receiving the news that David Hill had won the Junior Fiction Award (and we were also wishing him a Happy Birthday)

(I took the picture and not very well as the flash didn’t go off)

From left to right – Adele Jackson, Maureen Crisp, Fleur Beale, Pippa Werry, Anita Nalder and Sabrina Malcolm