LIANZA BOOK AWARDS - The Short and the Long of it!

The LIANZA Short (and long) list has just been announced. Many many Congratulations to everyone whose name appears below. Acknowledgments to LIANZA as I have just lifted their text from the announcement.
 Russell Clark Illustration Award Finalists

Launching Mrs Mo's Monster at The Children's Bookshop Kilbirnie last year

•      Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas by Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis – Scholastic

•      Jim’s Letters by Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper – Penguin Random House

•      Have you seen a monster? by Raymond McGrath – Penguin Random House

•      So Many Wonderfuls by Tina Matthews – Walker Books

•      Mrs Mo's Monster by Paul Beavis - Gecko Press

Longlist:

•               Bye! Bye! Bye! by Juliet McIver and Stephanie Junovich

•               Go Home Flash! by Ruth Paul

•               Moonman

•               The Song of Kauri

•               I Am Not a Worm

 

LIANZA Young Adult Finalists

•               I am Rebecca by Fleur Beale – Penguin Random House

•               The Red Suitcase by Jill Harris – Makaro Press

•               Singing Home the Whale by Mandy Hager – Penguin Random House

•               Recon Team Angel: Vengeance by Brian Falconer – Walker Books

•               Night Vision by Ella West - Allen and Unwin

Longlist:

•               Kiwis at War

•               Spark

•               The Bow

•               Awakening

•               Unworthy

•               Magic and Makutu

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Elsie Locke Nonfiction Finalists

•               The Book of Hat by Harriet Rowland – Makaro Press

•               A New Zealand Nature Journal by Sandra Morris – Walker Books

•               Maori Art for Kids by Julie Noanoa and Norm Heke - Potton and Burton Publishing

•               Mōtītī Blue and the Oil Spill: A Story from the Rena Disaster by Debbie McCauley – Mauao Publishing

•               New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame: 25 Kiwi Champions by Maria Gill and Marco Ivancic – New Holland

Longlist:

•               Under the Ocean

•               Offloading with Sonny Bill

•               Ghoulish Getups

•               Loves me not : How to keep relationships safe : based on the Sophie Elliott story and what we missed

•               Taratoa and the Code of Conduct

•               One Girl One Dream

 

Esther Glen Junior Fiction Finalists

•               Monkey Boy by Donovan Bixley – Scholastic

•               The Volume of Possible Endings (A Tale of Fontania) by Barbara Else – Gecko

•               Conrad Cooper's Last Stand by Leonie Agnew - Penguin

•               Trouble in Time by Adele Broadbent – Scholastic

•               Letterbox Cat by Paula Green – Scholastic

Longlist:

•               The Song of Kauri

•               The Deadly Sky

•               Island of Lost Horses

•               Dappled Annie and the Tigrish

•               The Night of the Perigree Moon 

 

Te Kura Pounamu (Te Reo Māori) Finalists
(image yet to come! BM)

•               Nga Ki by Sacha Cotter, Josh Morgan and Kawata Teepa - Huia

•               Hui E! by various authors - Huia

•               Tutewehi by Fred Te Maro - Huia

•               Kimihia by Te Mihinga Komene and Scott Pearson - Huia

An early Te Reo Reading Book Series by Carolyn Collis - Summer Rose Books