Margaret Mahy Book of the Year

Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes illustrated and written by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House (Puffin), 2021)

Picture Book Award

Lion Guards the Cake illustrated and written by Ruth Paul (Scholastic New Zealand, 2022)

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction

The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew (Penguin Random House (Puffin), 2021)

Young Adult Fiction Award

Learning to Love Blue by Saradha Koirala (Record Press, 2021)

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction

Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes illustrated and written by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House (Puffin), 2021)

Russell Clark Award for Illustration

Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes illustrated and written by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House (Puffin), 2021)

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for Te Reo Māori

I Waho, i te Moana by Yvonne Morrison (Scholastic New Zealand, 2021)

NZSA Best First Book Award

Spark Hunter by Sonya Wilson (The Cuba Press, 2021)