The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists are selected across four categories:
Picture book finalists
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Machines and me: Boats
Catherine Foreman
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The boring book
Vasanti Unka
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The three bears… sort of
Yvonne Morrison & Donovan Bixley
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Toucan can
Juliette MacIver & Sarah Davis
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Watch out, snail!
Gay Hay & Margaret Tolland
Non-fiction finalists
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An extraordinary land
Peter Hayden and Rob Morris
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Anzac day: the new Zealand story
Philippa Werry
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Flight of the honey bee
Raymond Huber & Brian Lovelock
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The beginner’s guide to hunting and fishing
Paul Adamson
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Wearable wonders
Fifi Colston
Junior fiction
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A winter’s day in 1939
Melinda Szymanik
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Dunger
Joy Cowley
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Felix and the red rats
James Norcliffe
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Project Huia
Des Hunt
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The princess and the foal
Stacy Gregg
Young Adult Fiction
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A necklace of souls
R L Stedman
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Bugs
Whiti Hereaka
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Mortal Fire
Elizabeth Knox
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Speed freak
Fleur Beale
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When we wake
Karen Healey
The winners of these categories will be announced on Monday 23 June, in Auckland.
Maori Language Award Winner – Taka Ki Ro Wai – Keri Kaa & Martin D Page
Taka Ki Ro Wai
Keri Kaa & Martin D Page
