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
