New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year

The 10pm Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press, 2008)

Children’s Choice

The Were-Nana (NOT a Bedtime Story) by Melinda Szymanik, illustrated by Sarah Nelisiwe Anderson (Scholastic, 2008)

Best First Book

Violence 101 by Denis Wright (Puffin Books, 2008)

Young Adult Fiction

The 10pm Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press, 2008)

Junior Fiction

Old Drumble by Jack Lasenby (HarperCollins, 2008)

Picture Book

Roadworks by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock (Walker Books, 2008)

Picture Book Honour Award

Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig by Diana Neild, illustrated by Philip Webb (Scholastic, 2008)

Non-Fiction

Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious by Gregory O'Brien (Auckland University Press, 2008)