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2023 Winners NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Te Wehenga: The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku – Mat Tait

Picture Book Award
Duck Goes Meow – Juliette MacIver

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction
Below – David Hill

Young Adult Fiction
Iris and Me – Philippa Werry

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
Te Wehenga: The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku – Mat Tait

Russell Clark Award for Illustration 
A Portrait of Leonardo – Donovan Bixley

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for books in Te Reo Maori 
Kua Whetūrangitia a Koro – Brianne Te Paa

NZSA Award for Best First Book 
The Lighthouse Princess – Susan Wardell

 

 

2022 Winners NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Bishop, Gavin      Atua: Maori Gods and Heroes

Picture Book Award
Paul, Ruth       Lion Guards the Cake

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction
Agnew, Leonie    Memory Thief

Young Adult Fiction
Koirala, Saradha   Learning to Love Blue

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
Bishop, Gavin   Atua: Maori Gods and Heroes

Russell Clark Award for Illustration 
Bishop, Gavin   Atua: Maori Gods and Heroes

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for books in Te Reo Maori 
Morrison, Yvonne/Cooper, Jenny/Papa, Pania   I Waho, I te Moana

NZSA Award for Best First Book 

Kelly, Arlo

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