Books

New Zealand Post Children's Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 117 books.


  1. Just Jack

    by Adele Broadbent

    Year: 2012
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Finalist
  2. The Travelling Restaurant

    by Barbara Else

    Year: 2012
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Finalist
  3. Loblolly Boy And The Sorcerer, The

    by James Norcliffe

    Year: 2012
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Finalist
  4. Digging Up the Past: Archaeology for the Young & Curious

    by David Veart

    Year: 2012
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  5. Kimble Bent

    by Chris Grosz

    Year: 2012
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  6. The Life Cycle of the Tuatara

    by Betty Brownlie

    Year: 2012
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  7. New Zealand Hall of Fame

    by Maria Gill, Bruce Potter

    Year: 2012
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  8. Nice Day for a War

    by Chris Slane, Matt Elliott

    Year: 2012
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  9. The Cat's Pyjamas

    by Catherine Foreman

    Year: 2012
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  10. Rahui

    by Chris Szekely, Malcolm Ross

    Year: 2012
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  11. Shaolin burning

    by Anthony Sang

    Year: 2012
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  12. Stomp!

    by Ruth Paul

    Year: 2012
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  13. Calling The Gods

    by Jack Lasenby

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  14. Sacrifice (2 Volume Set)

    by Joanna Orwin

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  15. Yes

    by Deborah Burnside

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  16. The Bridge

    by Jane Higgins

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  17. Dirt Bomb

    by Fleur Beale

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  18. The Haystack (1 Volume Set)

    by Jack Lasenby

    Year: 2011
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Finalist
  19. Finnigan And The Pirates

    Year: 2011
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Rank: 1
  20. The Moon & Farmer McPhee

    by Margaret Mahy

    Year: 2011
    Category: Picture Book
  21. Guardian of the Dead

    by Karen Healey

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  22. The Salt Trilogy: Book 3

    The Limping Man

    by Maurice Gee

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  23. Juno Trilogy: Book 2

    Fierce September

    by Fleur Beale

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Rank: 1
  24. The Bone Tiki

    by David Hair

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Book
    Rank: 1
  25. The Wonky Donkey

    by Craig Smith

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Choice
    Rank: 1
  26. Friends : Snake and Lizard

    by Joy Cowley

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Choice Junior Fiction
    Rank: 1
  27. Dear Alison - A New Zealand Soldier's Story from Stalag 383

    by Simon Pollard (NZ)

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Choice Non-Fiction
    Rank: 1
  28. Brain Jack

    by Brian Falkner

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Choice Young Adult Fiction
    Rank: 1
  29. The Word Witch

    Year: 2010
    Category: Honour Award
    Rank: 1
  30. Cry of the Taniwha

    by Des Hunt

    Year: 2010
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Finalist
  31. The Loblolly Boy

    by James Norcliffe

    Year: 2010
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Rank: 1
  32. E3 Call Home

    by Janet Hunt

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction Finalist
  33. Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig

    by Diana Neild

    Year: 2010
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  34. Willie Apiata VC

    The Reluctant Hero

    by Paul Little

    Year: 2010
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  35. Old Hu-Hu

    by Kyle Mewburn & Rachel Driscoll

    Year: 2010
    Category: Picture Book Category
  36. The Beginner's Guide to Living

    by lia hills

    Year: 2010
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Finalist
  37. Blood of the Lamb: Book 1

    The Crossing

    by Mandy Hager

    Year: 2010
    Category: Young Adult Fiction
    Rank: 1
  38. Violence 101

    by Denis Wright

    Year: 2009
    Category: Best First Book
    Rank: 1
  39. The 10 PM Question

    by Kate De Goldi

    Year: 2009
    Category: Book of the Year
  40. Were-nana: Not a Bedtime Story.

    by Melinda Szymanik

    Year: 2009
    Category: Children's Choice
    Rank: 1
  41. Old Drumble: The Smartest Drover's Dog There Ever Was

    by Jack Lasenby

    Year: 2009
    Category: Junior Fiction
    Rank: 1
  42. Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for Young and Curious

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Rank: 1
  43. Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig

    by Diana Neild

    Year: 2009
    Category: Picture Book
    Finalist
  44. Roadwork!

    by Sally Sutton

    Year: 2009
    Category: Picture Book
    Rank: 1
  45. Out of the Egg

    by Tina Matthews

    Year: 2008
    Category: Best First Book
    Rank: 1
  46. Snake and Lizard

    by Joy Cowley

    Year: 2008
    Category: Book of the Year
    Rank: 1
  47. The Salt Trilogy: Book 1

    Salt

    by Maurice Gee

    Year: 2008
    Category: Yound Adult Fiction
    Rank: 1
  48. The Three Fishing Brothers Gruff

    by Ben Galbraith

    Year: 2007
    Category: Best First Book
    Rank: 1
  49. Illustrated history of the South Pacific

    by Marcia Stenson

    Year: 2007
    Category: Book of the Year
    Rank: 1
  50. Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!

    by Kyle Mewburn

    Year: 2007
    Category: Children's Choice
    Rank: 1

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