Past Winners

2024

NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS

  • 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 Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Māori

    Nani Jo me ngā Mokopuna Porohīanga

    by Moira Wairama, illustrated by Margaret Tolland (Baggage Books, 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)

  • NZSA Best First Book Award

    Tsunami

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