Early this morning the finialst titles were announced for the 2016 Children’s Book Awards. These awards seek to find the best books written fro children in New Zealand in the last year. There are 6 categories – Young Adult, Illustration, Picture Book, Junior Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Te Reo Māori. There are also children’s choice awards for each of the 6 categories – finalists that are voted for by children rather than the book award judges.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Monday 8th August. You can find out more about the awards at the Booksellers website.
Have you grabbed your pizza wheel yet? Hell Pizza are one of the big sponsors of the awards. Until stocks last, you can grab a pizza wheel from the library. Get each section clicked for each book you read, and once you have completed a wheel (7 clicks) you can exchange the wheel for a pizza. Yum!
Here are the 2016 finalists:
Junior Fiction:
Enemy Camp by David Hill
From the cutting room of Barney Kettle by Kate De Goldi
Lily Max – Satin, Scissors, Frock by Jane Bloomfield
The bold ship Phenomenal by Sarah Johnson
The girl who rode the wind by Stacey Gregg
Non-Fiction:
ANZAC Heroes by Maria Gill
Changing Times: The story of a New Zealand town and its newspaper by Bob Kerr
See what I can see: New Zealand photography for the young and curious by Gregory O’Brien
The beginner’s guide to adventure sport in New Zealand by Steve Gurney
Whose beak is this? By Gillian Candler
Picture Book:
Allis the little tractor by Sophie Siers
Finding Monkey Moon by Elizabeth Pulford
Haka by Patricia Grace
The house on the hill by Kyle Mewburn
Little Kiwi’s Matariki by Nikki Slade Robinson
Illustration:
Changing Times: The story of a New Zealand town and its newspaper Illustrated by Bob Kerr
Finding Monkey Moon Illustrated by Kate Wilkinson
Hush: a Kiwi lullaby Illustrated by Andrew Burdan
Much ado about Shakespeare Illustrated by Donovan Bixley
The house on the hill Illustrated by Sarah Davis
Tamanui te Kōkako Mōrehu o Taranaki by Rebecca Beyer and Linley Wellington
Te Hua Tuatahi a Kuwi by Kat Merewether
Whiti te Rā! by Patricia Grace