Reservoir Road Book Awards for 2018
BEST New Zealand Books for Young People, published in 2018
A. Picture Books:
Cook's Cook Gavin Bishop, Gecko
Oink David Elliot, Gecko
Who Stole the Rainbow? Vasanti Unka, Puffin
B. Maori Language
Picture Books:
Nga Whetu Matariki
i Whanakotia [The Stolen Stars of Matariki] Miriama Kamo, ill. Zak Waipara, tr. Ngaere
Roberts, ScholasticTe Hinga Ake a Maui i Te Ika Whenua o Aotearoa [How Maui Fished up the North Island] Donovan Bixley, tr. Darren Joseph, Upstart
C. Non-Fiction:
Mozart: the Man
behind the Music Donovan Bixley,
Upstart Press
Kate Sheppard: Leading
the Way for Women Maria Gill, ill.
Marco Ivancic, Scholastic
Eliza and the
White Camellia Debbie McCauley, ill.
Helen Casey, Mauao
Why is that Lake
so Blue? Simon Pollard, Te Papa
Press
D. Junior Fiction:
Finding David Hill, Puffin
Dawn Raid Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith, Scholastic
The Mapmakers’
Race Eirlys Hunter, ill. Kirsten
Slade, Gecko
E. Senior Fiction:
Ash Arising Mandy Hager, Penguin
Helen and the
Go-Go Ninjas Michael Bennett, ill.
Ant Sang, Penguin
Cassie Clark:
Outlaw Brian Falkner, OneTree House
Slice of Heaven
Des O’Leary, Makaro Press
Reservoir Road
Book Awards for 2018:
The unrepresentative panel of elderly judges selects the best books published for young people in 2018.
Their criteria is simply whether a book would encourage the
panel to get on their bike and ride from Reservoir Road, Sawyers Bay to the
Port Chalmers Public Library in order to borrow it. The unrepresentative panel of elderly judges selects the best books published for young people in 2018.
Finding the Books:
Any New Zealand bookshop can get these books for you. (If
it can’t, it’s not a bookshop.)Any New Zealand public library will lend you these books.
Either way, you are helping the writers, illustrators and publishers, and encouraging them to produce more good books for young people.
Trevor Agnew 17 Feb 2019
FOOTNOTE 8 August 2019.
I am chastened to report a 100% failure rate in my predictions.
Not one book that I named was a winner!
I still stand by my selections as really good books.
A positive spin would be that there are LOTS of good NZ books out there for young people.
The winners of the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced last night (7 Aug 2019). From 29 semi-finalists, these books were chosen:
Picture Book: The Bomb, by Sacha Cotter, ill. Josh Morgan
Junior Fiction: The Dog Runner, by Bren MacDibble
Young Adult Fiction: Legacy, by Whiti Hereaka
Non-Fiction: Art-tastic, Sarah Pepperle
Illustration Award: The Bomb, by Sacha Cotter, ill. Josh Morgan
Te Reo Maori: Te Haka a Tanerore, by Reina Kahukiwa, ill. Robyn Kahukiwa
Best First Book Award: Art-tastic, Sarah Pepperle
FOOTNOTE 8 August 2019.
I am chastened to report a 100% failure rate in my predictions.
Not one book that I named was a winner!
I still stand by my selections as really good books.
A positive spin would be that there are LOTS of good NZ books out there for young people.
The winners of the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced last night (7 Aug 2019). From 29 semi-finalists, these books were chosen:
Picture Book: The Bomb, by Sacha Cotter, ill. Josh Morgan
Junior Fiction: The Dog Runner, by Bren MacDibble
Young Adult Fiction: Legacy, by Whiti Hereaka
Non-Fiction: Art-tastic, Sarah Pepperle
Illustration Award: The Bomb, by Sacha Cotter, ill. Josh Morgan
Te Reo Maori: Te Haka a Tanerore, by Reina Kahukiwa, ill. Robyn Kahukiwa
Best First Book Award: Art-tastic, Sarah Pepperle
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