Margaret Mahy Book of the Year

Snark: Being a true history … illustrated and written by David Elliot (Otago University Press, 2016)

Picture Book Award

That’s Not a Hippopotamus! by Juliette MacIver, illustrated by Sarah Davis (Gecko Press, 2016)

Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction

My New Zealand Story: Bastion Point by Tania Roxborogh (Scholastic New Zealand, 2017)

Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction

The Severed Land by Maurice Gee (Penguin Random House (Penguin), 2017)

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction

Jack and Charlie: Boys of the Bush by Jack Marcotte and Josh James Marcotte (Penguin Random House (Puffin), 2016)

Russell Clarke Award for Illustration

Snark: Being a true history … illustrated and written by David Elliot (Otago University Press, 2016)

Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Māori

Te Kaihanga Māpere by Sacha Cotter, translated by Kawata Teepa, illustrated by Josh Morgan (Huia Publishers, 2016)

Best First Book

The Discombobulated Life of Summer Rain by Julie Lamb (Mākaro Press (Submarine), 2016)