Margaret Mahy Book of the Year

Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg (Penguin, Penguin Random House, 2024)

Picture Book Award

Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai by Michaela Keeble, illustrated by Tokerau Brown (Gecko Press, 2023)

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction

Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg (Penguin, Penguin Random House, 2024)

Young Adult Fiction Award

Catch a Falling Star by Eileen Merriman (Penguin, Penguin Random House, 2023)

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction

Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth illustrated and written by Steve Mushin (Allen & Unwin, 2023)

Russell Clark Award for Illustration

Patu: The New Zealand Wars illustrated and written by Gavin Bishop (Puffin, Penguin Random House, 2023)

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Māori

Nani Jo me ngā Mokopuna Porohīanga by Moira Wairama, illustrated by Margaret Tolland (Baggage Books, 2023)

NZSA Best First Book Award

Tsunami illustrated and written by Ned Wenlock (Earth’s End Publishing, 2023)