Winners of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards
for Children and Young Adults

Margaret Mahy Book of the Year (prize: $7,500) and Russell Clark Award for Illustration (prize: $7,500)

Snark Being a true history of the expedition that discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock . . . and its tragic aftermath illustrated and written (after Lewis Carroll)
by David Elliot
Otago University Press

Picture Book Award: Prize $7,500

That’s Not a Hippopotamus! by Juliette MacIver and illustrated
by Sarah Davis
Gecko Press

Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction: Prize $7,500

My New Zealand Story: Bastion Point
by Tania Roxborogh
Scholastic New Zealand

Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction: $7,500

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

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction: Prize $7,500

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

Te Kura Pounamu Award for the best book in Te Reo Māori: Prize $7,500

Te Kaihanga Māpere
by Sacha Cotter, translated by Kawata Teepa and illustrated by Josh Morgan
Huia Publishers

Best First Book Award: Prize $2,000

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