Finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults - 2016

 Here is the exciting list of the finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young People 2016 announced yesterday. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT - please note that to save much time and retyping I have simply 'lifted' the text of this list from the email sent to members by THE NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF AUTHORS yesterday morning.  All I have done is to add a few images and flossy up the layout a bit with some coloured fonts. . 
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FINALISTS 

         

Spoilt for choice, say this year’s judges of the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults as they selected the 28 finalists that are announced today. (Yesterday)

“Haunted houses, war stories, gritty social issues and some amazingly imaginative works were all part of the mix. It was very challenging for us all to choose these finalists,” says convenor of judges Fiona Mackie.

In this 26th year of celebrating the best of New Zealand writing for our children and young adults, this year’s awards have expanded to include two categories from the now-merged Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Awards – the Russell Clark Illustration Award and the Te Kura Pounamu Award for books in te reo Māori.

The finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are selected across six categories: Young Adult Fiction, Junior Fiction, Non-Fiction, Picture Book, Illustration and te reo Māori. There were 154 entries submitted for the 2016 Awards.

The judging panel comprises convenor and teacher-librarian, Fiona Mackie; librarian, Kathy Aloniu; and children’s fiction author Melinda Szymanik. In addition, English academic, Professor Martin Salisbury is the advisor for the Russell Clark Illustration Award. Professor Salisbury is the Professor of Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK; he leads its MA Children’s Book Illustration programme which he established in 2000. He has been a member of the international jury for a number of illustration and picture book awards.

The te reo Māori entries were judged by librarians Te Rangi Rangi Tangohau and Lawren Matrix, and Auckland Museum’s Senior Outreach Programmer, Mereana Taungapeau. The convenor of the te reo Māori panel is University of Auckland Kaitiaki Māori librarian Riki-Lee Saua. 





AND THE FINALISTS ARE:

YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, Brian Falkner, Pan Macmillan Australia (Farrar Strauss Giroux)
Being Magdalene, Fleur Beale, Penguin Random House (Random House New Zealand) *
Hucking Cody, Aaron Topp, Mary Egan Publishing  *
Lullaby, Bernard Beckett, Text Publishing
Sylvie the Second, Kaeli Baker, Mākaro Press  *

JUNIOR FICTION (Esther Glen award)
Enemy Camp, David Hill, Penguin Random House (Puffin) *
From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, Kate De Goldi, Penguin Random House (Longacre) *
Lily Max – Satin, Scissors, Frock, Jane Bloomfield, Luncheon Sausage Books
The Bold Ship Phenomenal, Sarah Johnson, Flat Bed Press *
The Girl Who Rode the Wind, Stacy Gregg, Harper Collins *

NON FICTION (Elsie Locke Award)
ANZAC Heroes, Maria Gill, illustrated by Marco Ivancic, Scholastic NZ *
Changing Times: The story of a New Zealand town and its newspaper, Bob Kerr, Potton & Burton *
See what I can see, Gregory O’Brien, Auckland University Press
The Beginner’s Guide to Adventure Sport in New Zealand, Steve Gurney, Penguin Random House (Random House New Zealand)
Whose Beak is This? Gillian Candler, illustrated by Fraser Williamson, Potton & Burton *

PICTURE BOOKS
Allis the little tractor, Sophie Siers, illustrated by Helen Kerridge, Millwood-Heritage Productions *
Finding Monkey Moon, Elizabeth Pulford, illustrated by Kate Wilkinson, Walker Books *
Haka, Patricia Grace, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, Huia Publishers
The House on the Hill, Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Sarah Davis, Scholastic NZ *
The Little Kiwi’s Matariki, Nikki Slade Robinson, David Ling Publishing (Duck Creek Press) *

ILLUSTRATION (Russell Clark Award)
Changing Times: The story of a New Zealand town and its newspaper, Bob Kerr, Potton & Burton *
Finding Monkey Moon, illustrated by Kate Wilkinson, written by Elizabeth Pulford, Walker Books *
Hush: A Kiwi Lullaby, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, written by Joy Cowley, translated by Ngaere Roberts, Scholastic NZ
Much Ado About Shakespeare, Donovan Bixley, Upstart Press
The House on the Hill, illustrated by Sarah Davis, written by Kyle Mewburn, Scholastic NZ *

TE REO MAORI  (Te Kura Pounamu Award)
Tamanui te Kōkako Mōrehu o Taranaki, Rebecca Beyer and Linley Wellington, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, translated by Kawata Teepa, Huia Publishers
Te Huatahi a Kuwi, Kat Merewether, translated by Pānia Papa, Illustrated Publishing
Whiti te Rā! Patricia Grace, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, translated by Kawata Teepa, Huia PublishersHELL Children’s Choice finalists also announced
Kiwi children have enthusiastically voted online to select the finalists for the HELL Children’s Choice Awards. HELL Pizza general manager Ben Cumming says, “As a creative, New Zealand-owned business, HELL Pizza is passionate about feeding the imaginations of Kiwi kids and helping develop their literacy – particularly through a relationship with books. The stories these young readers have chosen as finalists are exciting, well-written, beautifully illustrated and clearly resonate with their audience. We can’t agree on our favourite, but luckily it’s not up to us!” Voting for the winners in the five categories of the HELL Children’s Choice Award opens on Wednesday, 8 June and closes on Friday, 22 July.

The HELL Children’s Choice finalists are:

Young Adult Fiction
Being Magdalene by Fleur Beale, Penguin Random House (Random House New Zealand) *
Stray, Rachel Craw, Walker Books*
Sylvie the Second, Kaeli Baker, Mākaro Press *

Junior Fiction
Cool Nukes, Des Hunt, Scholastic NZ *
Enemy Camp, David Hill, Penguin Random House (Puffin) *
The Girl Who Rode the Wind, Stacy Gregg, Harper Collins *

Non-Fiction
ANZAC Heroes, Maria Gill, illustrated by Marco Ivancic, Scholastic NZ *
First to the Top, David Hill, illustrated by Phoebe Morris, Penguin Random House (Puffin) *
Wildboy, Brando Yelavich, Penguin Random House (Penguin)

Picture Book
Kuwi’s Huhu Hunt, Kat Merewether, Illustrated Publishing
Stripes! No, Spots! Vasanti Unka, Penguin Random House (Puffin) *
The House on the Hill, Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Sarah Davis, Scholastic NZ *

Te reo Māori
Tamanui te Kōkako Mōrehu o Taranaki, Rebecca Beyer and Linley Wellington, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, translated by Kawata Teepa, Huia Publishers
Te Huatahi a Kuwi, Kat Merewether, translated by Pānia Papa, Illustrated Publishing
Whiti te Rā! Patricia Grace, illustrated by Andrew Burdan, translated by Kawata Teepa, Huia Publishers

A Finalist Authors’ tour will run from 1-9 August nationwide, with authors appearing in schools, libraries and bookshops.

The winners of the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced on the evening of Monday, 8 August at Circa Theatre in Wellington.

The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults could not exist without the generosity, commitment and vision of its sponsors. The New Zealand Book Award Trust is grateful to all these organisations for their support: Creative New Zealand, HELL Pizza, Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd, Wellington City Council, Nielsen Book Services, Copyright Licensing Limited and the Fernyhough Education Foundation.

The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are administered by the New Zealand Book Council on behalf of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust.